Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than a century. Greek troops had been permitted to occupy Smyrna and Anatolia in 1919 and 1920. The Treaty of Sèvres imposed terms so severe that British policy seemed to have succeeded in strangling the sick man of Europe in his sick-bed in Asia Minor...
Russia's own literature did little to disped the haze of unreality which hung about the nation. The great novelists painted with minor tones of same colors in which the war correspondents revel; only recently, has anything resmbling a true photograph been discoverable,--queerly enough in the literature of the Revolution...
...Major Award of the Benjamin Franklin Fund for a book on Mental and Spiritual Healing. The announcement also said that Charles P. Steinmetz got the second award of ?1,000 for a privately published treatise The Nervous System as a Conductor of Electrical Energy and that a minor award had gone to a Japanese living in Tokyo. It was said that Banning's book had been submitted for the award by "Dr. Franklin C. Wells, Medical Director of the Equitable Life Insurance...
...very prominent part in the whole transaction has been played by the United Fruit Co., whose prosperity in recent years has been great. The President of the company will be Minor C. Keith of United Fruit, while two of its directors will be A. W. Preston and B. W. Palmer, President and Secretary respectively of United Fruit...
...further proposed that recommendations for all awards, both major and minor sports, be sent directly to the Athletic Committee. This will eliminate the routine which in the past has necessitated in the case of minor sports, the approval of the Minor Sports Council, and the Student Council, and in the case of major sports, the approval of the Student Council, before they can be acted on by the Athletic Committee. A vote will be taken on this proposal at the next meeting of the Student Council...