Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer," pant presser, adviser, almost second father to hundreds of Harvard men. Once, when he had only a few hours left to catch a boat to South America, he was hurriedly called by the father of a student whose son was on the way to jail for some minor offense. Some time later, the offender was back in college and Benny smiled with satisfaction when he received the cablegram of thanks. This is only one of many times that Benny Jacobson has pulled Harvard men out of the fire with his mysterious sleight of hand. But it isn't always...
Jinx Falkenburg, introduced as "the girl with the big spread in Life," was the feature attraction, and made the affair a minor epic of frustration when she failed to get kissed, although it was a touch-and-go proposition several times during her time in the spotlight...
...represent the minor sports Oliver F. Ames '43 of golf; E. Thayer Drake, III '44 of soccer; and Thomas Matters '43 of tennis were elected to the Council...
Slim as it is, the volume appears padded. The lyrics, excepting an occasional piece like "Come In" or "A Young Wretch," seem minor, and occasionally trite. Emphasizing the short line and two-syllable rhyme, poems like "A Considerable Speck" are characterized by occasional flashes of epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society...
With global war taking more territory every day out of the diplomatic province, Mr. Hull was content for the State Department to fill henceforth what he called last week "a minor role." However, there was still work to do-in Latin America, for example, on top of fine work already done. And Finland-well, Finland would have to be told again to stop fighting Russia or face a U.S. declaration...