Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempting to trans fer night club business methods (i.e. polite but firm extortion) to the new enterprise. Even big, established milk companies feared his power. The result was that, when Larry Fay last week received his 57th summons in 14 years, whereas his previous offenses had been minor, this time the charge against him was more serious: conspiracy in restraint of trade. The New York Chain Milk Association was the name of Larry Fay's milk game. He was president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. His big-muscled "adjusters" persuaded loose milk dealers to join his association by methods...
...sword. He became a fiendish practicer among the Musketeers and Cardinals' Guards, and did not take up quieter study until, wounded, aged 24, he turned philosophic disciple of Descartes' foe-Libertin Gassendi, who also taught great Dramatist Moliere. As a writer, however, Cyrano was definitely minor. Yet his Journey to the Moon, despite its preciousness, was an ably fantastic novel, compound of carica ture and philosophy, and the inventive "science" in it anticipated Swift, Voltaire, Verne. Even Moliere was not above pilfering Cyrano's best comedy-scene. A beam falling from an upper story into the street...
...also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds opined that the bankers' work would be finished barely in time to be submitted to the politicians and statesmen of the Great Powers at a conference now scheduled...
...built the Briggs Baseball Cage and the new steel stands. The new indoor athletic building is going up a little higher every day. Many acres of land have been reclaimed on Soldiers Field and behind the Business School, and converted into playing fields for various intra-mural and minor sports. Since Mr. Bingham became athletic director about three years ago, the changes and the improvements in the development of athletics at Harvard have gone on steadily and consistently...
...building. It is hard to imagine a greater obstacle in the successful development of the athletics-for-all policy than insufficient facilities in such indispensable requisites as locker rooms, showers, etc. Dr. Richards and his assistants, the visiting teams, the coaches, not to mention all the minor sports and class athletic teams, would benefit from modern and enlarged quarters. We can hardly expect perfection immediately, but it is heartily hoped that before many moons pass the University authorities will be announcing plans for a new field house...