Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elms are predominant in the Yard not because they are more graceful and attractive than other trees, but because they can best withstand the conditions of city life. Undergraduates of Civil War days will remember the grove of pines sheltering "Universities Minor" at the rear of University Hall. Up to this fall there were two pines standing near the site of the original grove; the hurricane claimed one, so that now there is only one pine, one evergreen, in the entire Yard...
...Dartmouth slalom scheduled for April 16, plans have been made to get as many men as possible to enter races. There will be a big squad, and a team of about 20 members. At the end of the season, four or five of the more outstanding skiers will receive minor...
There are minor faults to the book. At times the continuity is ragged, often the prose is heavy, but underneath the story remains, so powerful that all it needs is a truthful description. Admiral Byrd is absolutely truthful...
...appreciated by those who have played the game, never by the spectators. It is the work of much more than an aggregation of the individual stars which it possessed; it is the work of a team, co-operating completely, and molded by fine coaching. Though soccer is nominally a minor sport, such an eleven has truly earned the right to major...
Reason for this ghoulish hocus-pocus was that a minor Elizabethan historian of doubtful veracity once wrote that when Spenser was buried, a cluster of poets, including Shakespeare, placed poems in their own handwriting in his grave. For 20 years the Baconian Society has been pleading to have the grave examined, arguing that comparison of the handwriting of the poems would prove once & for all that it was Bacon who wrote Shakespeare...