Word: minority
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this in all kindness-that, after all, there is no virtue in the world more universal, no virtue in the world as common, as common sense; and the reason I say so is that I never yet have met an adult man or woman, and very few of minor age, who did not claim that they possessed it. (Laughter and applause...
...often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...
...Minor defeats were sustained by several other Spanish forces. The troops of Raisuli, famed bandit now friendly to Spain, were beaten in combat and it was reported that Raisuli, recently appointed Governor of West Morocco, was dead...
...Ivigtut on a southerly Greenland cape. That meant they would need to carry extra fuel. Hoisting spare gasoline tankards aboard, the pilots started their engines, sought to take off. But the tankards were too heavy. The planes could not rise. Exasperated, the pilots tossed away every nonessential ounce, repaired minor breakage occasioned by their false starts, shot off hazardously. After 10 hours and 19 minutes in the air-fortunately not tempestuous-they soared down through a dense fog that blanketed their haven, "taxied" safely to anchorage. Lieut. Locatelli, exploring northern airways for the Italian Government (TIME...
...Page 1, The Sun (Baltimore) ex claimed: "HORATIO ALGER IN 1924 - 'Tattered Toms' play but a minor part in the distribution of the Sun-papers. We have newsboys in Balti more -hustling kids with voices as loud as and with car-hopping agility equal to those of any other city. But . ". . carrier circulation is the back bone of the Sunpapers-delivery directly into the home, not by the glorified newsboy of fiction, but by exclusive carriers, supervised by members of the Sun Route Owners Association, responsible business men who can glorify themselves after working hours...