Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superior returned from abroad. This invited attention to a " boy wonder "; for Mr. Gilbert is only 30. Eleven years ago he began to dangle his Rutgers Phi Beta Kappa key. Three years later he took his law degree at Harvard cum laude. Even in 1918 he was only a minor official in the Treasury Department at Washington...
...Lung, Wandering Philosopher, is Hero in a Minor...
...dipped into again, and always with pleasure and refreshment. It is also a book to keep -and a book that can be reread again and again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention...
...Independence Day from Indianapolis in the National Elimination race, in which not time of flight but the greatest distance from point of departure is the goal. On July 5 five balloons had already been forced down, mainly in Ohio, with thrills a plenty-jumps from appreciable heights and minor injuries. On that date the Army and Navy still had six craft in the air. By July 6 all but three had come down, Ralph Upson piloting the Detroit having had the most dangerous experience, when his gas bag split at 5,800 feet and a descent had to be made...
...into the river of 300 feet. Carried under water, the occupants were able to release themselves and were rescued by a motor boat acting as tender. The Breezewing, equipped with a 400 horsepower Liberty and capable of 130 miles per hour, was greatly damaged, but the aviators sustained only minor injuries. The accident was more than compensated for by technical information obtained...