Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This education committee has been holding meetings in pursuit of its investigation, as has the other major Council survey, that in connection with Harvard Athletics...
...major award was established in memory of Francis H. Burr '09, for presentation each year to a senior who "combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability...
...Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers with the precision of the Radio City Music Hall's famed Rockettes. For their grand finale they charged the length of the ring. Their director, Major D. A. Grant, explained that training the horses to keep time with the music was a job that took a year and a half of patient effort. Eventually, however, they learned to alter position and formation by taking their cue from the music. Musical rides are of no more military value...
Without fanfare, well aware that it could not steal the spotlight from U. S. football even if its players wore hoop skirts and plumed hats, last week major-league hockey quietly sidled into the North American sport scene at Chicago and Toronto. At Chicago the World-Champion Chicago Blackhawks auspiciously began their five-month defense of the Stanley Cup by trouncing the New York Americans, 6-to-1. At Toronto the powerful Boston Bruins, generally regarded the best team last year despite Chicago's winning the title, nosed out the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...pack, hotly pressed by Ford, with Plymouth third. But stable for stable, the Ford, Lincoln-Zephyr combination ran third, the Chrysler line (Plymouth, De Soto, Dodge and Chrysler) second and General Motors (Chevrolet, Pontiac. Buick, Oldsmobile. LaSalle and Cadillac) far out in front. For 1939, Henry Ford has two major bids for a return to the day when flivvers led the field: 1) a new car, the Mercury, to tap the middle-price field; 2) installation, at last, of hydraulic brakes in all models. Only other newcomer in the field is an oldtimer, the Overland, which reappears as big brother...