Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stock Exchange, heavy volumes in trading continue, along with a continued although somewhat irregular advance in prices. As yet, no signs of security inflation have appeared except in a minor way. Brokers' loans are stationary, and purchasing is still largely for cash. Declarations of new dividends, especially among the weaker railroads, already go to show that the autumn's "bull market" has not been a merely speculative movement, but caused by fundamental economic reasons...
...producing state. Chicago brokers claim that the cotton market should accordingly move westward to Chicago. Yet the Chicago, like the New York, cotton market will presumably handle little actual cotton, and be primarily a "hedging" market in cotton contracts. Under these circumstances, nearness to the cotton fields is of minor importance...
Vance, called "Dazzy" from the dazzling velocity of his pitches, was acquired by the New York "Yankees" in 1917 for a pittance paid a very minor league team. His arm, developed in boyhood by farmwork in Nebraska, went bad; he was released. In 1920, the arm recovered. In the past season, Vance won 28 games, lost but 6, struck out 262 batters. The "most valuable" vote brought him $1,000 from the National League...
Recommendation for awarding insignia to the members of the golf, rifle, cross-country and soccer teams were made to the athletic board at a recent meeting of the Minor Sports Council. The council is composed of the captains and managers of all minor sports recognized by the college...
...recognized as of some importance. In the United States there is the far more difficult task of convincing the public in general and the students in particular that scholastic achievement is deserving of the highest honor. And this case is the more serious because while on the Continent the minor points are lost in overemphasis on the major, in America the major issue is sacrificed to incidentals...