Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valuable psychologically, is another type of court martial in which a minor offender whose guilt is unquestionable, or one whose arrest brings important foreign repercussions, is brought to trial in a full blaze of publicity complete with defense attorneys and sheafs of copy paper in the press box, to show that justice and mercy still exist on whichever side is holding the trial...
Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
Wandering Chicagoan. At the Rehn Gallery, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, 29, showed new and better work than the half-comic paintings of sleazy Chicago scenes by which he is known. Pontificated New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell: "Between the minor if vaguely haunting tightness of those minutiae and the ripe, fluent graciousness of the present work, a vast difference publishes itself." Still this side of graciousness but studied with uncommon depth were Aaron Bohrod's new subjects: poor whites, exhausted interiors of tourist cabins, a trailer camp, a sidewalk in New Orleans...
When Cornell and Colgate last met in 1923, Cornell won 34-to-7. Last week Cornell had a comparative newcomer. Carl Snavely. instead of old Gil Dobie. but the results were even more disastrous. With practically the same team that lost all but three minor games last season. Cornell proceeded to give Colgate the worst beating it has experienced in nine years. A Negro end named Brud Holland scored three touchdowns in the last quarter. The score...
...attacks where tanks and armored cars accompanied the troops and enemy bombers retaliated in force ("I had been waiting to feel frightened, but each time the bombs fell before I knew, and then when it was over I thought that I had only felt excited"); sometimes in minor engagements where their only objective would be a patch of woods across a ploughed field, but where men would be killed as dead as anywhere else in the taking or losing of it. It was not until the whole army halted and his detachment rested beside a quiet stream somewhere...