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Word: minored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up from the Basement | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...unconscious of odors. "It may be doubted," observe McCord and Witheridge, "that the handful of men and women on Noah's Ark, with their own existence threatened, complained of animal odors about the place." But less preoccupied people than the Noah family make a major to-do about minor stenches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Psychology of Scent | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Expected Swipe. Exactly what this story means each reader may decide for himself; like much genuinely first-rate fiction, it allows for a variety of interpretations because it reverberates with many possible meanings. But no reader is likely to doubt that it will soon find a place as a minor classic in the American short story, a ruthless fable about the human soul that might have come out of Hawthorne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come On, Everyone | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Houses won't elect until next year, but the three new members from minor sports teams are: Robert Claffie '50, wrestling; William A. Ailen '50, ; and Richmond W. Rechelder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Committee Chooses Seven | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...spring is full of minor regattas, special invitational regattas, and championship regattas. Harvard has entered most of them and has usually wound up in second place. Yale has proved unbeatable this year, and in the several races not entered by the Elis, Harvard has been edged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Mold A Top Team . . . . . . Without Boats | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

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