Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small town in up-state New York, close to the Canadian border. Small though the town is, the area which must be covered by a doctor is vast and wild. His patients range from Indians and French-Canadians, to small farmers and village folk, and his duties from major operations to treating contagious illnesses...
Points are awarded on a basis of 50 points for each major sport team entered and 35 points for each minor. Additional points are awarded according to standing at the close of competition in each sport. Samborski explained...
...Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches its modest distinction only when its central character, the tireless Papa Pasquier, gets involved in so many affairs that neither he nor the reader can keep them straight...
...Williams Bridgman, famed Harvard physicist, admits that people are harder to understand than physics. In time, however, he thinks that man's complex make-up can be plotted and simplified, provided men take over the physicist's skeptical (but not cynical) attitude toward things-in-general. His major discovery, after 300 pages of considering man's odd behavior, is that people are mentally lazy...
Dick Walsh, who pitched Infrequently last year, is the only member of the Mitchell mound stall not returning. Ace Varsity hurler for two successive seasons, Ed Ingalls, will be counted on to carry the major portion of the hurling burden this spring. Slim Curtise, who pitched a surprise 4-1 victory over Dartmouth and played a major role in the late-season Crimson wins, is rated as the number two pitcher. Don Prouty, Tom Healey, Yardling twlrier a year ago, Frank Foley, and Lefty Edinberg, Jayvee pitcher, are others who may see considerable action for the Mitchellmen...