Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debussy: Quartet in G Minor (Paganini String Quartet, Victor, 7 sides). The two inner movements of Debussy's only work in this form are as beautifully made as anything Debussy ever wrote. The Paganini plays it well. Recording (on Viny-lite): fair...
...these moments occurs when, at 22, he first takes the hand of the twelve-year-old girl he loves. She loves him, too, and their hearts are faithful through years of separation brought on by evil gossipers and the threat of arrest for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
...Below stairs" this setup is neatly imitated by Bullivant the butler and Mrs. Selden the cook, who spend the bulk of the day tyrannizing over two minor lackeys named George and Miriam with just the same genteel, long-winded authorita-tiveness that Horace exercises upstairs...
With some minor changes, the 1948-49 draftees could look forward to just about what their older brothers faced in 1940. Most of them would go into the Army, while the Navy and Air Force would rely mainly on volunteers. Basic training would last eight weeks at the start, be increased to 12 to 13 weeks as soon as emergency manpower shortages were filled. All draftees would be eligible for promotion. The biggest difference between 1940 and 1948 would be in the method of selection. Instead of the goldfish bowl lottery, draftees would be picked by age groups, would...
Most U.S. readers know what an ordeal the revolution was in the U.S.; few of them know what it meant to the British Empire. At its beginning, the British viewed it as a minor dispute. They believed that the colonists could not fight, that the people were not deeply hostile, that the trouble would end once the ringleaders were rounded up, and that a deep love of the old country persisted despite the increasingly bitter battles...