Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed the agricultural-appropriation bill, with its $50,000 ceiling on loans to each farmer for each crop; also a $13.5 million bill to finance the White House and several general Government agencies, and 36 other minor bills...
...scarred little picture has rested unidentified for more than a century in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is the work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul Sifton, an American scholar and Du Simitière expert, last week showed evidence that the picture's subject is really Jefferson, done from life at 33 at the time of the Declaration of Independence...
...time of Homer there lived, deep in the interior of Asia Minor, a great king named Midas. The Greeks were awed by his enormous wealth, amused by his odd taste in music. To celebrate the first they grew the legend of the "Midas touch." The king had once wished, they said, that everything he touched would turn to gold, and his wish was granted, even to the inclusion of whatever touched his lips. Before the laughing gods allowed him to rescind his wish, Midas almost died of thirst. As for his taste in music, Midas had the long, pointed ears...
...concert opened with a work by the late Baroque Belgian composer Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, the Trio in B Minor, No. 2, a pleasing four-movement composition of the sonata da chiesa type...
...will open her program with four works by Bach. These will be followed by The Fugue in A flat Minor, by Brahms, Schonster Herr Jesu, by Schroeder, and The Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, by Piston...