Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerto for Pianoforte No. 1 in B flat minor Tchaikovsky...
...astronomical colloquium will be held, today, at 4.15 o'clock, in Building A, of the Harvard Observatory. Miss Emma T. R. Williams will lecture on "Bobrovnikoff on Minor Planets" and Doctor Cecilia H. Payne on "Atmospheres of Giant and Dwarf Stars...
...Freshman dormitories. While the smaller buildings might possibly encourage the formation of cliques more than the larger dormitories, this problem could be solved in much the same way it is done at present. The assignment of rooms in Mower could be done on a minor scale as compared with the filling of a hall the size of Gore. The circulation of members of the first year class among the small Yard buildings would parallel the contacts established between McKinlock, Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls. Besides while the Yard would only hold the same number the Freshman Halls accommodate, it would...
Vetoes. Already President Coolidge's occasional troubles with Congress are fast fading from the public memory. His vetoes were not many but they were notable. Most of them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed...
From the viewpoint of the reader, incidentally, the proposed legislation is of minor significance. The Boston dweller who must have his "Oil" will simply no longer be obliged to travel to Cambridge to get it. The languishing Boston bookshops will again take on their line of pristine Republican prosperity. And, for the Book of the Month Club, Lewis, Deeping, Sinclair and Dreiser may now be enrolled once more on the national eligibility list...