Word: major
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gallows for possession of arms, have been applied against Arab terrorists. Last week a British military court showed it could be equally stern with Jewish terrorists. The court condemned two of the young Jews to hang, sent the third to an insane asylum. Sole hope of clemency remained with Major General Robert Hadden Haining, commander of the British Palestine forces, who must confirm the sentences. If confirmed, the two convicts will be the first Jews to be hanged in Palestine since British occupation...
...realistic" diplomacy and the half-legendary hero-philosopher of the desert revolt retired to write, refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...
Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...
...shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength of their ground plan, contemplated many changes before the art centre is erected, but felt sure that architects who could successfully solve a major problem would have little trouble with minor ones...
...Cracked down on 13 major oil companies and eleven of their officers. Accused of illegally fixing the margin of profit for independent jobbers in the "second Madison oil case." these defendants fortnight ago pleaded nolo contendere (TIME, June 6). Last week. Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone of Madison, Wis. fined them a total of $360,000 plus $25,000 costs...