Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Early last week Major Curran reported his progress. He published the names of the first 70 eminent citizens to be installed on the A. A. P. A.'s directorate, which is to number 100. Dry citizens were startled to discover the calibre of the persons whom Major Curran had been able to enlist. The most prominent patron of the Anti-Saloon League lately has been Sebastian Spering Kresge, the 5-and-io-cent man. Now, as antagonists of Mr. Kresge, the A. A. P. A. points...
Friends of Prohibition were perturbed also by the language of Major Curran's report of his progress. Back of his board of directors is a membership of 750,000 citizens. "And behind that," he said, "stands the increasing determination of the American people to cut out of our Constitution the cancer that lodged there when the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted...
Hundreds of minor earth shocks and a score of major quakes occurred, last week, in a narrow area some 500 miles long and stretching from Varna, on the Black Sea across Bulgaria, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea to Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
...repaired, and structures which still threaten to fall must be pulled down. The material damage amounts to at least 620,000,000 drachmas ($8,000,000)." Fortunately the loss of life was slight, since the population of .Corinth, terrified by preliminary tremors, took refuge in the open before the major quakes began...
...peasants, over whose lands Deniken had been content to send his armies roughshod. The recognition shortly accorded to Wrangel by France greatly enhanced his prestige, and in 1920 he advanced against Moscow, relying on the Russo-Polish war which was then raging to engage the attentions of a major part of the Red Army...