Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figuring scores for the Straus trophy sports are divided into major and minor sports with a third group including boxing, wrestling, fencing, and the other minor tournament sports. Entering a team in a major sport for a season wins 50 points for the House, and if the team wins 100 extra points are added...
...Farm Problem has been a major political issue for 20 years. For the last six Congress has followed the gyrations of farm income more closely than the Supreme Court is supposed to follow the election returns...
...first year under AAA II which was designed to keep five major crops up to "parity prices." only one crop (at average farm prices), tobacco, is selling above parity. Corn, at 41? rice at 58?, cotton at .08?, all stand just above half. Wheat, at 52?, is less than half. For the first time in five years farm income has backslid-10%-to $7,625,000,000. Over Franklin Roosevelt's budgetary wails, Congress voted a $212,000,000 appropriation for direct parity payments plus the $500,000,000 earmarked for soil conservation payments; but in the election farm...
...conception of industry having a united voice is of course, entirely illusory. Last week the opinions of the assembled bigwigs ran the gamut of virtually every major subject and only after 17 versions of the resolutions had been composed could they agree. The results naturally were as vague as the results reached by similar compromise in political platforms. But in backing collective bargaining and many New Deal reforms, while pleading for tax revision and cessation of government competition with industry, N. A. M. was also obviously sincere in its good intentions, its belief that it is now meeting...
...ability to read twelve languages was a major factor in winning for Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. '40, one of the four Rhodes Scholarships given annually in the New England district. Coming from Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Roosevelt is a consistently brilliant scholar, and the only Harvard man to earn the award for this year...