Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed two dozen minor bills...
...afternoon last week, as the Grace Line steamship Santa Clara lazed through the blue Caribbean, a man named Tomas Montanez was leaning against one of her bulwarks, out of sight of the bridge. Even in the small world of the ship, he was a minor figure; he was the ship's carpenter. But 30 seconds later, Tomas Montanez was a new, superior and infinitely precious being. He had fallen overboard...
...toxic or irritant effect is "unimportant," except when it is injected into the spine; then it may cause convulsions. A few patients may get a rash, no matter how the drug is given; sensitivity may follow use of the drug, so it should not be used for minor ailments...
...minor journalistic coup. North American Newspaper Alliance crowed that on March 8 it would release (in the New York Times and 50 other papers) 18 excerpts from the wartime diaries of Paul Joseph Goebbels. Doubleday & Co., which had sold pieces of the Nazi propagandist's day-by-day jottings to the syndicate, had also scored a coup: Doubleday's 200,000-word version would be the Book-of-the-Month Club selection (700,000 copies...
...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...