Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall a concert by the Boston Symphony Ensemble, players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra assisted by Philip Gordon, pianist. The program includes the Overture to "Secret of Susanna" a Quintet for Piano and Strings by Foote and SaintSaen's Concerto in G minor...
...college is so small and unusual athletic ability so concentrated that many of the best football men are occupied with other interests in the spring. We prefer to rest our case, however, on the broader argument. Football is overemphasized; intercollegiate athletics are hypertrified; spring football is merely a minor symptom of the larger disease. It is one of those things without which we could so easily...
...minor scene occurred when Mr. Masterman, Liberal, made a request for information to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. The Chancellor thought the request offensive and said: "My right honorable friend can understand from the answer exactly what his intelligence enables him to apprehend." Thereupon loud cries of "Withdraw!" rent the air. The speaker said he did not think the question was offensive and the Opposition (Conservative) and Liberal cries turned to cheers...
...fishers of the Senate fished all week in the deep seas and caught, in one word, nothing. The most promising nibble was testimony of a minor official in the Department of Justice to the effect that the Department had failed to recover between $5,000,000 and $20,000,000 from a subsidiary Du Pont (powder) company. This big fish got off the line before it was hooked. The fishing proceeded...
...Pasha, drove the Greeks into the sea at Smyrna after a thunderbolt campaign in August, 1922. British troops at Chanak, on the Dardanelles and on the Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that this attitude meant war, and Lloyd George was ousted bag and baggage...