Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There have been four minor fires around the College in the last ten days, which has suggested to some keen minds that an arsonist may be at large. If this is so, I would like to beg him, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, to stop setting these petty little blazes and to start thinking...
...public has been invited to the meeting, which will be prefaced by Milhand's Suite for violin, clarinet, and piano, and the Mozart piano quartet in G minor...
...offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great burst of emotion at the end, are like stepping-stones in a rushing stream, with awkward jumps between...
...record for bases on balls (5,045), and one outfielder allowed himself to be hit on the head by a fly ball he was supposed to catch. Baseball was still showing the interfering effects of World War II: not enough good young recruits had come up through the minor leagues to replace fading oldtimers...
...issue is less controversial or less important, policy is determined by a majority vote of the people present at an "editorial policy" meeting. These include everybody on the editorial board and anyone else on the paper who happens to be interested in showing up. Sometimes the issue is minor, and only a handful are present. More often--on subjects like the War Memorial, or the tuition boost, or the HAA's seating system--anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five people appear. Usually at least one or two of them are particularly well-informed on the subject at hand, having discussed...