Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only is a special train carrying the Harvard football team to Baltimore, but it is a special Harvard team. Despite all statements and predictions to the contrary by sportswriters tired of watching the Crimson go down to defeat after defeat, Harlow's eleven men are due for a major victory. For three years they have labored with gridiron fundamentals; by now these have certainly been absorbed. For three years they have been learning smart, deceptive football; by now enough experimentation has been expended on such teams as Princeton, Yale, and Springfield to produce the result of victory. Whether Harvard will...
...evening will be devoted entirely to Richard Strauss and Prokefloff. To the Thursday selections will be added the German composer's grandiose "Death and Transfiguration," which makes skillful use of cerie woodwind passages and muted syncopation in the strings to build up a tension yielding only to the C major chords of the brasses in the finale...
Holding company death sentence. "As the Constitutional issues are resolved on the Public Utility Holding Company Act there will be expansion, if that act is upheld, in the utility division, where we will have a major...
Last year Dr. Burr was absolutely sure that a surge in the micropotential of rabbits and cats, as registered on the microvoltmetre, indicated ovulation simply because he could cut those creatures open and examine the state of their ovaries. But since he could not perform a major operation on a woman just to confirm the meaning of an electrical surge through her flesh, he had to wait until a lucky break provided him this year with an amiable woman who was scientifically-minded and going to have an abdominal operation anyway...
Unlike British Major Geoffrey McNeill-Moss's factually authoritative but notably pro-Rebel account of one of the most heroic episodes in Spain's civil war (The Siege of Alcazar; Knopf: $3.50), Sommerfield's book is unpretentious historically, uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...