Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains and minor dislocations...
Riots & famine. The new government faced even more pressing problems. In Bengal and Madras provinces, acute food shortages threatened to produce isolated pockets of starvation, while Moslem outbreaks (minor but persistent) and strike-crippled rail system threatened to paralyze transportation. Last week, even the hope' of aid from abroad was deferred: the U.S. shipping strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had tied up 225,000 tons of wheat; Siam failed to deliver any of its promised rice shipments; Indonesia delivered but a few thousand tons of the promised 700,000 tons of paddy (unmilled rice...
...Roscoe Pound is one of the most eminent jurists of the generation. But Professor Pound, by his own admission, discusses matters outside the realm of the Law with "individual imbecility." Having recently completed a legal code for the Chinese Central Government, Professor Pound returned to this country and dropped minor words of wisdom that cannot be considered imbecilic, but can certainly be tossed in with the "inside dope" brought back by scores of junketing Congressmen, visiting firemen, and just plain tourists...
This strong outfit is facing a Harvard team which hasn't scrimmaged as a unit once this season. There have been countless minor injuries to his potential starting players, and Harlow is going to rely on the individual ability of his aggregation to survive the Crimson's initial venture this season...
British catalogues are quite complete, with listings of most minor works and rare, hard-to-sell large sets such as Purcell's great opera. "Dido and Aeneas." With less spent on advertising and technicolor album covers, the British customer gets more for his money in finer records. We can only hope that the American industry will once again set its sights on the target of better records and will turn towards quality when it has sated its appetite for huge profits. It would be refreshing again to have music for music's sake the rule in the platter business...