Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Postmaster General Harry S. New announced the issuance of three stamps to commemorate a minor engagement fought in and around Lexington, Mass., about 150 years ago: the 1-c. stamp shows General Washington taking oath under a Cambridge elm; the 2-c. shows the battle of Lexington ; the 5-c. shows a Concord minuteman and the lines...
...circus boys; when they put on their first show, in 1882, in McGregor, Iowa, where they had been born, he was the one who collected the admission.? In 1907, they bought all of the Barnum and Bailey interests at the absurdly low price of $410,000. Among the minor achievements of John Ringling is the acquirement of three Western railroads. Such is his knowledge of the route his circus must travel that he once won a bet of a dinner by demonstrating that he, blindfolded, could trace a railroad line from the capital of any state to the smallest...
...charge of the transaction under the terms of the will, estimated that the total estate was worth between two and three million dollars. One million dollars is deducted by Mr. Ward to be put in trust for his son, Artemas Ward '99, and with the exception of several minor bequests the residue is given to Harvard to establish the General Artemas Ward memorial...
Five crews comprise the squad. These are, in the order of excellence, the red, white, and blue crews, which are listed as equal, and the black and green crews. In addition, there are eight minor crews, which will later be divided into dormitory eights. On the 150-pound squad there are three crews. The seatings of the crews are as follows...
...third Exposition was devoted entirely to the compositions of Brahms and gave the auditors an opportunity to hear an authoritative rendering of such beautiful and standard works as the Sonata in D minor, and the Trio for violin, cello and pianoforte in B major...