Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony Orchestra for a number of years having joined the company from France. He has already appeared before Boston audiences this winter; but his playing tonight will be the first in Cambridge since 1921. His special number on the program is a concert by Saint-Saens in a minor strain...
...program for this evening follows: Quartet for Strings in D mayor Opus 64. No.6 Haydu Quartet for Strings in G minor Frank Bridge Quartet for Strings in D mayor Opus 1s. No. 3 Beethoven
...Shenandoah (TIME, Jan. 28) will take three months to repair. Her cells are now being deflated, and the costly gas stored in special containers. About March 1 the gas will be purified in the only apparatus of its kind in the U. S. Repairs and only minor changes are being authorized by the Bureau of Aeronautics. The first idea of building a false nose, to secure safety in the case of another breaking loose from a mooring mast, has been abandoned. The extra weight involved in such construction would throw the ship out of balance...
...there have been scattered through the decade, but lonely stars without even good, average settings. A kind of vicious circle of cause and effect was set in motion. Harvard was not considered much of a "track" college, track was relegated to a quasi position between the major and the minor sports, and secondary school track stars were magnetized away by the prowess of Yale or Princeton or Cornell...
Meanwhile the credit for a new championship team in a minor sport is largely due to its coach, Mr. Harry Cowles. Team A has ended its season on top of its league, and Team B.--"the Harvard scrubs"--is leading in its division. But, as the best result of this success, the game is ceasing to be regarded as a sort of weak-sister to tennis, and is becoming more and more popular in its own right...