Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknown Tongue. Some relics of the ancients are wrapped, not in the mud, but in the deeper mystery of a still-untranslated language. The big-nosed Hittites (Sons of Heth in the Bible), who dominated Asia Minor from earliest biblical times, left stone-cut inscriptions so numerous and so lengthy that they seemed likely to contain plenty of ancient history. But since the diggers lacked a key to the stiff hieroglyphic characters, all they could do was bite their learned nails and hope that a key stone would turn up eventually...
Just chalk up the American Olympic hockey debacle as a minor international incident. Snow is drifting over the St. Moritz rinks, and the A.H.A. and the A.A.U. teams are taking a look-see through Europe on the cuff before embarking for the States. The Brundage versus Brown issue is, for the moment, closed. But in backroom, beer-primed athletic colloquiums the nation over, A.A.U. and A.H.A. partisans are waxing eloquent over the entire American amateur athletic picture. Avery Brundage's Olympic committee, of which Bill Bingham is a member, gets excited about amateur athletics once every four years, searches through...
...operation itself is a relatively minor event. Some donors have even admitted that they rather enjoyed it. Student entertainment, of course, isn't the prime object of the undertaking. But since at worst it is painless and quick, all the needling of the student body should be left to the doctors and not to the overworked crew of PBH campaigners...
Reached last night in his North Station lair, a minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...
...Other minor matters were bandied about by the local politics: Why registration? They'll investigate. Why not improvements in the course catalogue? They'll probe. What to do about parking? They tabled the issue of parking until the fall unless sufficient undergraduate pressure stirs them to action before then. Alarm was expressed about Red Book financial conditions...