Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a minor study revolution going on in the ranks of undergraduates. For the first time in many years, Economics courses have been forced out of their first-place position in popularity as a field of concentration--and the encroacher is Government...
...which is further aggravated by the slashing of whole scenes from the American version. Film continuity, while not always a prescribed virtue, would have been helpful here because no single character, not even Nicholas, is given enough footage to sustain the interest in the plot. There are many wonderful minor characterizations, as might be expected, but that is not enough...
...truth is often hidden in them. This morsel is recognizable to men who, first, think of their national welfare in terms of a civilized inheritance, and second, think of the world itself as "a province of the Kingdom of God." In his view, it is, for example, of minor importance that the old apartment house of Western Europe has recently collapsed: what matters is that Christendom has found a newer, physically stronger home on the North American continent...
...much for the major clubs at College. The four so far mentioned, HYD, Committee for Wallace, HLU, and HYRC, are really the nerve centers of all other activity. From them stems the controlling influence over virtually all minor groups...
When President Truman addressed Congress asking for Universal Military Training and re-enactment of the Selective Service Act, he possibly did not forsee the minor legislative war he was to set off. Opposition was particularly vigorous in the House, which in desperation had quietly swept UMT under the rug and hoped no one had noticed. On the other hand, support of the draft by itself seemed to be almost equally as strong. Late in March, the Senate Armed Services Committee conducted hearings, at which Defense Secretary James Forrestal outlined what he considered to be the "minimum necessity" for United States...