Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scale stands the grind, at the other the tramp athlete, and in between should be found the perfect student who seeks the Greek ideal of a vigorous mind in a beautiful body. The question that really deserves serious consideration is that of warped ideals, and not the minor influences of a manner of life which happens to include greater material comforts...
According to Yale tradition, when Vanderbilt Hall was built at the far end of the campus it was the first undergraduate dormitory to have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...
...Douglas, Instructor in Geology, to purchase a quartz spectograph for determining the minor constituents of minerals, ores, and rocks, and the composition of minute grains too small to be analyzed in other ways...
...minor ways, of course the imitation of Jesus is today impossible. His clothes, his Aramaic dialect, such things as these, and others deeper still in which his modes of thought and speech were necessarily conformed to the customs of his country and time, we cannot follow. But his character is so universal that even Renan cries: 'Whatever the surprises of history, Jesus will never be surpassed.' Men of all generations find in his trust in God, his loyalty to his Cause, his love of men, his quenchless hope, in these timeless and universal qualities suffused by his divine spirit, their...
...Interstate Commerce commission began the mighty task of placing a physical reduction on United States railways. Most of the expense involved was foisted upon the roads themselves, although a minor proportion of it was met with Government funds. Down to the end of 1924, the Class I roads have spent $80,380,350; by the middle of last year the Interstate Commerce Commission had spent $25,597,543, with an estimated outlay of $510,000 more for the last six months of 1924. Up to the beginning of the present year, therefore, a total of $106,487,893 has been...