Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Yale had taken the Crimson's measure in football, hockey, basketball, swimming and track the other five major sports and had enjoyed more than its share of success in minor sports before the New London conclave...
...order. In Brooklyn nearly 1,000 couples jammed the corridors on Saturday morning. Some of them got in line as early as 6:30 a.m. When the doors were closed for the afternoon some 600 couples were still waiting, went home to wait another week. Small-town records were minor versions of the big-city records...
...burliest bully boys. As a major-league pitcher, his spitball was almost as famed as his spats with umpires. As a major-league manager, his particular brand of umpire-baiting made all his colleagues look like little Lord Fauntleroys. Last week Old Burley, now 47 and manager of the minor-league Grand Rapids Club, reminded baseball fans that he has not lost his stuff. For spitting tobacco juice in an umpire's face, he was banished from organized baseball for one year, the stiffest punishment a manager ever received...
...Rochester, N. H., a midnight prowler awakened a 15-year-old girl by tickling her feet, was jailed for breaking and entering and for "tickling the feet of a minor without her consent...
...Mann has interested himself in the study of the artist, the superior man, the genius. Usually his method has been elaborately symbolic; in The Beloved Returns it is direct. On the scale of such colossal fables as Joseph and The Magic Mountain this new novel must be classified as "minor"; and, relative to their all-but-unfathomable subtleties, it might seem almost transparent. But it is by no means minor, by no means so straight-edged as it looks. To the readers whom it will bring to the edge of their chairs it will be no simpler than a serpent...