Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday evening in Sanders, the first concert of the usual series given in Cambridge by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony; Haendel, Concerto Grosso in D-minor for Strings; de Falla, Suite from "E1 Amor Brujo," and Berlioz, "Roman Carnival" Overture...
Trapshooting has not yet been recognized as a minor sport, although there have been spasmodic efforts to secure such recognition. Therefore members of the club pay their own travelling and practice expenses. They also provide trophies for winners and high men in the various shoots. The men who shoot against Yale receive medals, and the man who makes the best score for the year receives a silver...
Died. Mary McCadden, 93, one-time nurse to Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed governor; in Milford, Pa. Governor Pinchot, himself recovering from a minor operation, cut short his convalescence to visit her bedside a Grey Towers, the home of the Pinchots, and of Nurse McCadden. Hearing his voice, she stirred, woke from her coma, cried: "My boy! My boy!" But soon after she yielded to a fatal relapse...
...After hearing an eloquent plea from Henry Morgenthau, ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, on behalf of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, now practically destitute, the League decided to increase a loan to Greece from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds...
...jewels of which, sleeping and waking, he dreamt; while the man to whom he had sold his mansion found diamonds in the stream that watered the garden, thus discovering the famed mines of the Golconda. Taking the thread of this tale, Dr. Conwell elaborated it with over 30 minor anecdotes. He quoted Bailey, the Bible, Garfield, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson. In his delivery, he incorporated every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage. He larded his sentences with such aphorisms...