Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...decision involved a minor Communist Party official in Colorado named Mrs. Patricia Blau. Called as a witness in a federal grand-jury investigation in 1949, Mrs. Blau stood on her right to avoid selfincrimination, refused to say whether she knew anything about the party. She was tried for contempt, sentenced to a year in jail...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...writers, there were few outstanding literary biographies, little notable poetry and even less first-rate literary criticism. Newton Arvin's Herman Melville was the best critical study of the year, brief, intelligent and splendidly informed; Edmund Wilson's Classics and Commercials was a good, stimulating collection of minor pieces by the best of U.S. working critics. Poet Robert Frost was much honored, but no poetry was published that promised a likely successor to him. Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems contained 72 newly collected ones that showed the same minstrel's virtues and poetic limitations...
Another reporter went after a story on the grades of Radcliffe freshmen. "They said they didn't want anything like that to run, because," the reporter states, "it would make Radcliffe look unfavorable compared to Harvard." Once a Moors Hall student phoned in a minor riot, and was called on the carpet by the deans...