Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there always must be a first time, and as a result of the winning of this championship, men have come to regard squash racquets more as a competitive sport, and less as a nice, pleasant pastime for society dilettantes, and for business men in search of exercise. As a minor sport, squash has firmly established itself in the University, and from the stand-point of popularity, it is the second winter sport...
Like tennis, squash raquets was introduced to this country from England; and like tennis, it has not been immediately accepted, but has slowly grown more and more popular. Tennis, when it achieved general recognition in the colleges, immediately became the most important minor sport. It shook off, to a great extent, the connotation of pink teas and cookies; it overcame the objection to the expense and location of courts, and it gained major sport letters for its champions. This is the road which its winter cousin has before it, and on which it has made a good start...
...Ancona and its district as many as 15 minor earthquake shocks were felt in one day. The tremors were persisting. Terror-stricken , people camped out in the open for days, suffered from the intense cold...
...remainder of the show is spread with a prodigal profusion that only Florenz Ziegfeld can maintain. There are numerous minor luminaries of musical comedy in the cast, an unobtrusive plot, a succession of amiable melodies. In fact the only objection that can be raised against the show is the practical impossibility of obtaining tickets...
...describing the conditions which he has observed, Professor Harlow said: "I have seen countless students, many of them dressed in patched and tattered army uniforms, with clothes fit only for the warmth of a summer day, all through the countries of the Balkans, central Europe, and Asia Minor. Their faces are usually pinched with cold and hunger; in many of the student countries I have found tuberculosis prevalent. In Russia alone last summer there were more than forty thousand students and professors lacking warm clothes or sufficient food to keep them, above the starvation level. What must be their condition...