Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than half of the top executives of limb concerns wear prostheses themselves, and are as anxious for improvements as anyone. But so far their scattered research has produced only minor improvements...
Victim's Explanation. Watching her play minor roles in major films like Wilson, major roles in minor films like Shining Victory, discerning cinemaddicts have long been puzzled by Geraldine Fitzgerald's fourth-magnitude stardom...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event?an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished...
Kenneth Olson, dean of Northwestern University's school of journalism, planned to set up a model city room and have his students publish a daily Shrivenham Post on local newspaper presses. Dr. Douglas Whitaker, Stanford zoologist, created a minor Army supply problem by ordering 1,000 frogs. Among others...
...youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...