Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horween assumed the duties of head coach at Harvard three years ago under a decided handicap. He had been called in following a gloomy era of defeat and the first two years under the new regime were marked by ups and downs. One major victory and three major defeats comprise the record of this period, during which the Harvard elevens were introduced to the Horween system. That the ultimate goal of these coaching principles was nearing attainment was revealed to followers of Harvard football during the 1928 campaign, which culminated in the 17 to 0 defeat of the Yale eleven
...major Whalen accomplishment was decentralization of the force. The major lack of accomplishment seemed to be a lack of tangible progress in the Rothstein murder case, which occasioned the Whalen appointment...
Andrès Segovia is to the guitar what La Argentina is to the castanets, Casals to the cello, Kreisler to the violin. Last year his U. S. debut was one of the major events of the season. Last week he played again without accompaniment, music by Handel, Bach, Haydn, Albeniz, with such skill and understanding as to hold his Manhattan audience rapt...
With the arrival of a new year, however, Mr. Chrysler certified that the major part of the fable was indeed a fact. He announced that the name of the Chrysler Corp. was changed, significantly, to Chrysler Motors. He said: "It welds together the advantages resulting from the common policy of engineering, purchasing, manufacturing and financing under one personal head...
There are, however, some major differences between the two units. Direction of General Motors is divided, impersonal; Chrysler Motors, like the Ford company, is united under one chief.* General Motors uses the financial wizards of the Raskob-du Pont type; Chrysler relies chiefly on Walter P. Chrysler. General Motors is close to J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chrysler is the good friend of the Brady family and, more recently, of Dillon, Read & Co. General Motors has issued the huge total of 43,500,000 shares of common stock,† Chrysler only 4,423,484. General Motors sold 1,576,708 cars...