Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find for the party-a taciturn, even secretive man, an awkward, fiery writer, a self-taught linguist who read and spoke German, French, Spanish and Italian. He wrote for the Daily Worker, became its foreign news editor, finally (while Cartoonist Robert Minor was listed at the top of the masthead) became its editor in fact. On the side he did translations. Two of his translations (from the German) were Franz Werfel's Class Reunion and Felix Salten's Bambi. In 1929, disturbed by reports of Stalin's heavy-handed tactics and stories of the first party purges...
Podiatrists may now give local (but not general) anesthetics, prescribe sedatives like barbiturates (not narcotics), perform minor surgery. They treat not only corns, bunions and calluses, but also foot symptoms of gout, arthritis and circulation disturbances. One of their most important jobs is teaching diabetics proper foot care, to reduce the chances of gangrene. Podiatrists practice in 40 hospitals in New York State, in about...
...What words will survive or die? That is what is called (today, at any rate) "the $64 question." Editors Morley & Everett have taken no chances. They have included a host of minor poets whose work is unknown outside the little magazines. They have recorded some of the most banal remarks ever made, simply because the authors sit in 1948's high places (e.g., Secretary of State Marshall England s Princess Elizabeth), or had high hopes of sitting there ("That's why it's time for a change," says Thomas E Dewey; "We want to feel...
Benefactress. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Gertrude Minor was arrested for sponsoring teen-age drinking parties, protested that she only "wanted to keep the kids off the streets...
Radcliffe is slowly shaking off a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbances, reports last night showed. Though Health Center officials denied the existence of any widespread illness, Briggs Hall recorded 17 perecent and Bertram Hall 14 percent casualties...