Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Arrow Cross v. Double Cross. The strategy might be a purely Balkan one. Just as Napoleon turned back from the English Channel to Ulm and Austerlitz because he feared treachery at his rear, Adolf Hitler was perhaps just consolidating the ructious minor countries of the southeast. There was certainly plenty of consolidating to be done...
...Board of Admission inquires very thoroughly into the headmaster's impression of the boy and puts more weight on his estimate than on the boy's record outside school work. Football, therefore, plays only the most minor of roles in determining the qualifications for entrance...
Organized to a point of over-efficiency, the University's registration system was strained only once, at 7 o'clock when early risers attempting to escape the confusion found themselves in the midst of a minor rush...
...crowds at the Stadium that pay the Faculty its wages. And thanks to the alumni the H.A.A. is carefully hoarding a reserve athletic endowment, contributed over the last five years. Eventually the interest from this fund will be used to support the teams in the minor sports, so that football gate receipts won't determine the amount of money put at the disposal of the House, Jayvee, and incidental squads through the rest of the year...
Thus brooded young Danny O'Neill, a minor character in Studs Lonigan, James T. Farrell's hard-boiled chronicle of a poolroom slob in South Chicago's vast Shanty-Irish district. Studs Lonigan was really the book Danny O'Neill had in mind, but all its 1,108 pages did not purge his memory of its hates and bitterness. So Danny himself became the subject of two later novels: A World I Never Made (1936), No Star Is Lost (1938). This week appeared a third, Father and Son, bringing the story of Danny O'Neill...