Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from its qualities as pure entertainment. Wylie claims to have been breathing the same brand of fire for the last twenty or so years, predicting the future importance of bombing and the black-hearted intentions of Hitler's gang, but limited, unfortunately, by the whims of editors to writing minor fiction and articles on fishing. This book represents, then, the eruption of a long repressed critical volcano in which every sacred American institution from Mom down to bingo comes in for a baptism of fire. What distinguishes it from the run-of-the-mill Menckenisms and Peglerisms...
Pinza, who has been singing at the Met for 16 years, is the answer to an impresario's prayer. He can sing any of 55 operatic roles at a few hours' notice. He has no objection to playing minor roles, usually succeeds in making them seem major. No scene-stealer, he can be counted on to help inexperienced members of the cast. A wonderful example of what the Italians call a basso cantante ("singing bass"), he combines baritone agility with bass sonority and boom. That voice, at the Metropolitan and in concert tours, grosses between...
Students withdrawing from College must file a petition with the Administrative Board either for a leave of absence or for permission to withdraw, University Hall recently announced. The petition should contain a statement of the reason for withdrawal and must be accompanied, if the student is a minor, by a written statement from a parent signifying his approval...
...types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded out open-pollinated corn...
Britain's major loss was expected to bring major gain to a minor man. Stouthearted, statesmanlike Sir Sikander was probably the only non-Congress Moslem important enough to challenge the claim of Mohamed Ali Jinnah to speak for all Moslems in India. In the last elections Jinnah's Moslem League won less than one-fourth of the seats officially reserved for Moslems in the Provinces; in the Sind, where Moslems are preponderant, it won not a single seat; in the North-West Frontier Province, with a population 92% Moslem, it polled less than 5% of all Moslem votes...