Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SONG OF LOVE: From ____'s great A-Minor Concerto was wrung a vapid tune, timed for the forthcoming movie on the composer's life...
Bread & Coffee. But last week these deprivations seemed like minor matters. Great numbers of the Navajos are facing starvation. Only 161 of their 11,117 families own as many as 200 sheep-the number needed to maintain a mere subsistence level of living. Without big irrigation projects (which could make the reservation capable of supporting 35,000 people at most), their desolate lands are almost useless for agriculture...
...spite of Harvard's constant and ignominious defeats from its great rival, Yale, the annual game was still the most looked-for one in the country. There was undoubtedly good sportsmanship, but games frequently became rough and new. A minor legend of the early Eighties were Ben Lamb's teeth and their effect on the Harvard anatomy during a typically fierce game. The CRIMSON even penned a little poem on them...
Down the river at marbled M.I.T. they follow the Hutchins line on major sports, but minor ones still exist--if in an undernourished condition. Coach James MacDonald's Varsity soccer team meets the fattest of the Engineers' underemphasized athletic squads at M.I.T. this afternoon in the fond hope that the Techmen will provide the same type of fragile opposition as in years past...
...unable to maintain the stamina and hardness necessary to avoid injury. To add further to a general picture of murderous laxity, House teams do not always observe the meager one day of practice each week, individuals neglect to tape their ankles before games, and many players never report a minor injury until it develops into a stretcher case...