Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's minor sports squads will see action this weekend, with a fencing match, and an indoor track meet on the docket for Saturday. The track squad is set to travel to Tufts for a practice meet, while Rene Peroy's fencing team will meet an M. I. T. outfit in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Chicago Sun's solemn little Chester Morrison last week had recovered sufficiently from a minor accident in Libya to broadcast this philosophic item over...
...sparing any Italian city was produced last week by the Italian press. Mussolini's own Popolo d'ltalia reported that the people of ravaged Turin welcomed the arrival of the city's first German ack-ack units. Already, in short, the R.A.F. had made Italy a minor second, front...
...toughest obstacle to school consolidation in Illinois is its archaic patchwork of 11.957 autonomous boards of education (there is no state board), which are a minor but profitable branch of politics. Today their schools, even though they have only three pupils, get state aid based on a minimum of 18. But beginning next July no more state funds will be given to schools enrolling fewer than seven students. This, as well as the teacher shortage, should speed the trend toward consolidation...
Most charming of the picture's attributes is its tendency to abandon the usual Hollywood baby talk for normal adult conversation, achieving striking success in its seemingly minor-key moments. The characters do not insist on mouthing Shakespearian lines at every turn, and when they do, it stands out in obvious and unsatisfactory contrast. Scattered complaints that the film is "mushy" can be upheld by pointing to those less likeable sections where the actors attend to the business of acting, but those condemnations are completely subordinated by the picture's masterful, off-guard body...