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Word: minors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately, the president escaped serious injury. The bullet passed through his hat and grazed his right temple, splintering the bone. He was immediately driven to the hospital, where he was able to walk to the operating room. His face suffered minor cuts from the splintered glass. His condition was said to be satisfactory, but the Athenians worried over him fearing that the shock would be more than his age could stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Shot | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...knows how many sick, mangled and dead people have been brought into the admitting ward. Since 1902 the number has been 1,442,747. Another 1,750,000 have gone in for minor injuries. When an amateur writer shot Novelist David Graham Phillips in 1911, an ambulance took the body from a sidewalk near the old Princeton club and carried it to the admitting ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At Bellevue | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Significance. Written in a style of Gothic complication and detail, the book possesses, though it does not awkwardly exhibit, a sturdy framework of research and knowledge. It does exhibit many flying buttresses of outside inquiry into the lives of the minor members of the cast (George Germain, General Gates, the Continental Commander Charles Lee) and many gargoyles of antique wit quoted from the talk of the coffeehouses, the clubs, the theatres of the day or from the author's own invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Gentleman Johnny | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Opposing arguers may say that such a situation is feasible in any examination and that fate plays as large a part in Divisional and other important inquisitions as in the November minor agonies. If so, and there is a great deal of cause to believe that such is not the case and that it is in the present sieges that the majority of blunders arise, there is no adequate reason for continuing the opportunities for error. Few men "find themselves" in the November hours--one presumes that that is the ultimate cause for their existence--and many are the souls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLEAK NOVEMBERS | 11/2/1927 | See Source »

...place of F. A. Clark '29 at left tackle last Saturday, had a class and did not report. Daniel Simonds '28, regular guard, was another whose academic duties kept him from the field, while W. R. Harper '30, stellar line plunger, was in street clothes nursing a series of minor bruises. He will be in shape for the Indiana tilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INJURED LIMB FORCES DONAGHY TO SIDELINES | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

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