Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss in securing naval intelligence, had blundered tactically in the battle of Santiago, and had various minor faults. The Court however recommended no action be taken, and indeed the time had expired in which a court martial could be held. Shortly after the trial he was retired on reaching the age limit...
...larger aspects of the Chinese customs muddle. It is expected that, for the present, the conference will steer clear of as many of them as possible. Observers agree that the immediate situation in China is too unstable to warrant proximate withdrawal of British tariff-supervision. Presumably as many minor points of friction as possible will be cleared up at the conference; and it is thought probable that the tariff rate will be raised from 5% to 7½% in order to increase the revenue to a point where China can abolish some of her internal taxes...
This is not a minor indictment. The spirit of play can be ruined quite as easily with cheap heroics as with money, and with consequences in the way of false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...
...then has America no active participation in that court? The reaction to war sentiment is over. It was over when President Harding, a member of the reactionary party, recommended with minor reservations that the Senate assume some active interest in the court. The answer to the question is simple. Certain American politicians are preventing America's entrance into the world court. It has not their vote for it has no evidence of their particular genius; it does not contain their signatures. To them the fact that such intelligent minds of their country as Mr. Hughes, Judge Choate, and President Lowell...
Princeton, N. J., October 26--with only a few minor injuries to mar the physical condition of the squad, Princeton is starting the last two weeks of practice prior to the final encounters with Harvard and Yale. As regards injuries, at least, the Tiger mentors seem to be better off than the coaches of Princeton's greatest rivals...