Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior Dormitory Committee has initiated a minor innovation in the methods adopted this year for the allotment of rooms, according to an announcement issued last night by the Chairman, M. A. Cheek...
...news that Harvard College is to close Memorial Hall as a dining hall. Presumably the building will be converted to baser uses. It might be given over to one of the minor arts, eating not having thrived there. Or it might be utilized as a chemical laboratory or a hall of social research. In all these and in many other fields it has already attained distinction. Its venerable oil paintings, somewhat dimmed by the vapors of hot soups and coffee, its stained glass windows, more impressive, though less frequently noted, than the stained table cloths, all have served to embellish...
Here is the table of the electoral votes showing the efficient result of the popular votes represented above : YEAR REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE 1924 ..... 389 129 13 1920 ..... 404 127 1916 ..... 254 277 1912 ..... 8 435 88 Some minor but noteworthy matters in regard to the 1924 returns...
Bluffing Bluffers was a minor grain in the Christmas grist. It started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
...most cases the difference between a major league player and a minor leaguer lies in his brain power. The man in the minor league may be able to bat a ball as far, run just as fast, and throw a ball as hard as the major league man, but usually his mind is not as alert as the man in the higher league. Most ball players must play for serveral years in the minors before they can find a permanent, job in one of the major leagues. This is not true so much in the case of college men, because...