Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sincere Christian workers and missionaries the sacking of their homes in Nanking which was most extensive last week, seemed only an essentially minor disaster in the wreck of their spiritual work. The typical Christian missionary places his loyalty to China second only to that for his homeland; and his concern for the welfare of the Chinese is apt to exceed the care he takes of his family or himself...
...with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur].' . . . Joe and the two in the milk wagon soon recovered from minor injuries. My car burned to the ground...
...ones are not brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan is far from inept. Occasionally there are breezy paragraphs, her minor figures live, Bumper Product
...flimsy foundations for the outbreak of war, but on just such frailties have wars been built. When once alight, the flame is hard to quench. Nothing could prove this more strikingly than the memories which this anniversary evokes. The wave of patriotism and of war-hysteria began in minor size, but, once started, it carried everything before...
England and France may have their minor difficulties over rewarding service to the commonwealth, but just so long as the reward is in the form of a rosette or coronel, they will be following their own best interests. They will escape the necessity of awarding public utilities jobs to loyal contractors, agencies to loyal Anti-Saloon Leagues, warships to influential trust companies...