Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major investigations for the current year, the Student Council voted last night to conduct a survey of the athletic set-up at "Harvard" including a broad study of the nature and progress of sports as well as their place in the undergraduate life of the college...
Underlining the right answers to questions composes the major portion of the written grilling. Students in biological sciences should know of what does the placenta not permit free passage from mother to foetus. The sample test shows "blood corpuscles" underlined as the correct answer...
...House Dewey Short has an almost model anti-New Deal voting record (only major New Deal legislation he has voted for: Social Security...
With old age pensions looming ever larger as a factor in Depression politics, observers were not surprised last week to see a deal consummated in politically sophisticated Massachusetts between one of the major parties and a local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress...
While the major U. S. railroads were last week pleading to Franklin Roosevelt's Fact-Finding Commission that they cannot continue in business without enforcing a 15% wage cut, directors of a little U. S. railroad which has not operated a train or sold a ticket in 89 years met in Adrian, Mich, to pay a $24,000 dividend...