Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women's hats. Last week when the American Football Coaches Association met in Chicago for their annual rule-tinkering, they wrote an extraordinary page into the annals of the sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change for 1939. Said President-elect Lou Little (Columbia): "The coaches feel a nice balance has been reached between offense and defense. We are now in for a period of stabilization...
...Riddle's great contribution to biology is the recognition and analysis of the major pituitary hormone prolactin, discovered in 1932. This substance is the stuff that makes mothers motherly. In Richmond last week Dr. Riddle and two of his ablest co-workers-Robert Wesley Bates, 34, and James Plummer Schooley, 34-summarized their work on prolactin. Dr. Riddle is also, more than any other U. S. biologist, a crusader for the propagation of biologic truth among plain people, and at a dinner for biologists he steamed them up on the opportunities and obligations of biology teachers...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major for Piano and Strings (E. Robert Schmitz and members of the Roth Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides). An early but likable Beethoven item originally written, as Op. 16, for piano and wind instruments. The performance is well-tooled...
Schubert: Sonata in G Major, Op. 78 (Kurt Appelbaum, pianist; Musicraft: 8 sides). Remarkable example of fine piano-tone reproduction. German Pianist Appelbaum plays his Schubert sensitively...
...Married. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, 72, board chairman of Radio Corp. of America, onetime chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; and Anne Lee Brown. 55, great-granddaughter of Light Horse Harry Lee; both for the second time; in Rapidan...