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Word: major (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From East & West they came, 55 of them, fattish and full of memories. They had read about this year's Wolverine Express. In three games it had scored 138 points, better than any other major college team in the U. S. And in the Big Ten (Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Aaron Bohrod is a shy, blond, hardworking Chicagoan. Whether he will rank as a major U. S. artist 20 years from now is anybody's guess. Undoubtedly his brush points in that direction. At 31, he has won two Guggenheim fellowships and eight art prizes. Thanks to the latest, a $200 honorable mention at the Carnegie International (TIME, Oct. 30), he went by day coach to Manhattan last week, saw a one-man show of his open at the Associated American Artists' Galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Optimistic Realist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Schubert: Symphony in C Major (London Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 12 sides). First top-notch recording of one of the greatest, and longest, romantic symphonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology for offering a few dogmatic opinions and recalling some of the traditional remedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dry Nights | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...recommended lens submitted by the Undergraduate Athletic Council concerning the cross country team will also be dealt with today. The Council recommended that at Major H be awarded to all harriers placing in the first seven at the Heptagonal Meet or to all members figuring in the point score of a cross country team winning either the Heptagonal games or the IC4a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Acts Today on Athletic Recommendations | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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