Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation of Musicians refused her admittance on the grounds that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics, can be played...
...jump by making seven baskets before the game was five minutes old, and then coasting along to lead at the half, 19 to 2. Almost immediately it looked as though Harvard were going to be completely smothered by the Dartmouth passing attack, which functioned almost to perfection against the smaller Crimson men. After the intermission, however the Crimson defence improved materially and the Green hoopsters were held to 11 points in the second half, the same number that Harvard scored...
...editorial reprinted from the Exonian in an adjoining column is significant in two respects. In the first place if commends the effort of the new plan to give the individual more contacts. Secondly it claims auccean for the smaller classes and the increase in discussion which the Harkness fund has made possible...
Auction Riot Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. But last week tobacco-men watched the smaller towns of Owensboro and Henderson instead. At Owensboro some 3,000 farmers collected around the main warehouse or ''floor'' for the year's first auction. A big, one-story frame building, covered with sheet metal, the "floor"' is a store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers...
...abroad. Katanga belongs to it. Foreign consumers have often complained bitterly about the price, roundly denounced the association. Although copper for export should theoretically be no more than the shipping rate above the New York price, the disparity has often been .0075? instead of the accepted .0025? per lb. Smaller members of the association have complained, found themselves up against a strong voting control which brooked little criticism. Last week all dissenters found a new champion. Louis Shattuck Gates, president of Phelps Dodge Corp., suddenly announced his great company would retire from the association...