Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Walter Stephen Sturgill, a graduate of the North Carolina College of Agriculture in 1901 and of West Point in 1906, who completes his course this year at the Army War College in Washington, comes to Harvard in September as Professor of Military Science and Tactics, to replace Major L.A. Craig, who has been ordered away. Major Craig goes from Harvard to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to take the regulation army course which prepares officers for staff duties with the larger divisions of the army...
Violet Heming and Minor Watson lead the cast and give excellent performances. In fact if it isn't too much to ask, the powers ought to advance Mr. Watson to Major...
Tariff. Still in committee, this legislation promised to furnish prime excitement for the session. That rates on agricultural products should go higher no one denied. Whether rates on raw materials and manufactured goods would be likewise increased, contrary to the wishes of President Hoover, remained the major uncertainty...
...Throughout the "A B C Countries"-where even the most potent U. S. news services are represented chiefly by native correspondents- banquets are considered major news. In a single day, last week, one such news service received five "banquet stories," not one of which contained an atom of what U. S. citizens consider news...
Last week's N. C. E. meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were...