Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover (speaking for the first time): "The point of major interest is whether there are any fish left in the Brule...
...undoubtedly true that it is easier and cheaper to get out the vote in Presidential elections than in Senatorial. But if the current cost of Senate votes is no higher than $1 each, Presidential votes will have to be more than twice as easy and cheap if the major parties are to spend less than $15,000,000 between them...
Assassination of individual Britons in Egypt is the one weapon left to individual Egyptians; but after the assassination of British Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack (TIME, Dec. i, 1924) the British Empire demanded and received from Egypt an indemnity of ?500,000 (about $2,300,000), together with other humiliating capitulations...
Cynics rejected so ingenious a theory while recalling Mr. Morrow's major success in calming U. S.-Mexican relations, heretofore embittered over Oil, etc. (TIME, April...
Crown of Clay. General Alvaro Obregon was twice invincible, in valor and in modesty. History does not record that he ever lost a major battle. So invincible was his modesty that during his term as President (1920-24) he would not occupy the Mexican "White House," a sumptuous palace, but resided nearby in his own small house. Such a man did well to refuse in his last will burial in the Mexican National Cemetery...