Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money (a ?6,000 annual allowance from Parliament and numerous legacies), but to all intents she is a grownup, with her own suite of rooms at the palace. The yawning gap of years that separates her from her elder sister is all but closed. There is only one minor difference left: one day Elizabeth will probably be Queen and she, in all likelihood, will not. For Margaret that difference means only more freedom for herself. She may marry whomever she pleases (provided, of course, that he is not a Roman Catholic, that she gets her father's permission...
Holt never cared how many degrees his teachers had (of 105, only 21 have Ph.D.s) or how many A's his students got. He believed that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...
...Hoffman's technique were inclined to agree with him. So, apparently, was the Federal Communications Commission. Last week in Washington, the FCC announced that color television would be licensed just as soon as the color image can be received "satisfactorily" by ordinary black & white sets "with relatively minor modifications...
...these are, in the long run, minor criticisms of style rather than content. The people who produced "Home of the Brave" and acted in it had something important on their minds, and they spoke it out with great clarity and courage. For James Edwards, who played the young Negro soldier, there can be nothing but the highest praise. He lived his part, as he has all his life...
Wrestling--Men who compete in five or more matches are eligible for a minor H. Major H's are given to undefeated teams, men or teams placing first in the Easterns, or men who place first, second or third in the N.C.A.A. tourney...