Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technical Sergeant Charles E. Kelly, a thin-faced, 23-year-old redhead from Pittsburgh, is one of seven brothers, all in service. He has seen 70 days of active combat in Italy, suffered no wound worse than a scraped nose and some minor cuts on his hands from shell fragments.* He fought at Salerno, San Pietro, Cassino...
...than 1% sometimes caused a 10° change in temperature. Solar changes also seemed to affect the barometer according to a definite pattern. Pursuing these rhythms further, he learned that solar heat and weather alike had clearly marked cycles, ranging from eight months to 22¾ years, i.e., certain minor weather changes (after allowing for seasons and local conditions) tend to repeat themselves at eight-month intervals, and major changes in 22¾ years...
Opening the concert at 8 o'clock with Kabelevsky's Overture to "Coles Breugnon," Kostelanetz will lead the orchestra in "Frontiers," by Creston, and in Stravinsky's Suite from the ballet "L'Oiseau de Feu." After an intermission the program will conclude with Cesar Franck's "Symphony in D Minor...
...Luscious Lucius noted a minor tragedy for voluptuaries: "Cartier's isn't selling anywhere near the number of men's gold garters the shop usually does. Not because there is a declining demand; on the contrary, they aren't able to fill even the orders on hand because of the difficulty of obtaining good quality -elastic...
...Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could make correspondents hew to the official line of what is good and what is bad battle news...