Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanson Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times, cautioned newspapers against over-accenting minor victories of the United Nations while under-playing defeats. "Don't play stories too big at first," he said, "for subsequent developments usually mitigate the value of the initial reports...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, in F Minor (NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 10 sides). An unorthodox, exciting reading of the famed Russian's "Fate" Symphony, in which Stokowski uses his fluid-drive conducting, disturbing to conservative musicians, fascinating to most ears...
...minor part, Lynne Overman is infinitely more amusing than any possible second features of which, fortunately, there are none...
...example, correlation of the information gathered by the physician with that of the psychiatrist shows that there is a relationship between some minor physical defects such as poor teeth, frequent headaches, flat feet and certain less desirable personality traits. Seventy per cent of 56 students tagged by the psychiatrists were labeled the same way by the physician, who based his opinion only on pulse rate and blood pressure measurements. When the anthropologist and the psychiatrist got together, they found that a lack of harmony in body measurements in a man may be related to personality weakness. Breadth of shoulder...
...entirely and in place of it there have been substituted certain simple classification groups. The participants are divided into three categories, A, B, and C. "A" men are those with no flaws and very sound personalities, but may range from strong dynamic men to bland colorless individuals. Men with minor flaws are placed in the B class, while those with rather definite handicaps, both mental and physical, are designated as "C". All are considered "normal". The subjects also fit into certain groups of personality traits such as "strong basic", "weak basic", "Pragmatic", "idealistic", and "Shy". The doctors in the Grant...