Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japan has been a land of earthquakes from time immemorial. There are records of great earth disturbances in A.D. 684, 869, 1361, 1498, 1596, 1707, 1792, 1846, 1854, 1896. Minor tremors are a daily occurance. It is estimated that there are 1,500 earth tremors a year. This is the reason for the light, bamboo construction of most Japanese buildings...
...favor of Rhineland Republic. Zeitz, Saxony. Sanguinary fighting between Communists and the militia. Nine Communists were killed and 30 wounded. The casualties among the troops are unknown. Langen. Revolutionary Committee of unemployed clashed on several occasions with the security police. Many casualties resulted. In addition to these places minor disturbances occurred in places too numerous to mention. The situation is expected to quiet down as soon as the Government in Berlin begins to make its influence felt outside the capital...
...transfer tax report recently issued for the estate of the late William Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, showed a gross amount of $102,584,438, against which were $30,402,247 of debts, and additional minor expenses, leaving a net amount...
...Lackawanna Railroad; 39,300 Midvale Steel; 17,300 U. S. Industrial Alcohol; 15,300 Union Pacific; 2,330 Glen Alden Coal; 8,400 New York Central; shares in the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Guaranty Trust, Hanover National, Mechanics and Metals National, and National City Banks; as well as many minor securities...
...concludes that it is impossible to say that tobacco smoking will retard the intellectual processes of any one person, but in a large group it may be predicted that the majority will be slightly retarded. Dr. O'Shea takes pains to point out that the study was limited to minor intellectual processes and gives no answer regarding creative ability, judgment or general physical vitality. Conclusive tests on these matters are still to be devised...