Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless Justice Black's carefully worded admission and disclaimer was interesting for the points it did not cover: it did not deny in any major point the statements made in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's articles about his Klan connections. It did not say whether his original resignation from the Klan was bona fide or merely a 1926 campaign gesture. It did not explain why he had accepted the "unsolicited card" or whether he had tried to give it back. In particular it did not deny the effusive speech attributed to him at a Klan klorero after...
...semiautonomous, mutually-jealous State and Party cliques, intervening chiefly when their affairs have reached a crisis. In his alternately moody or excited fashion Hitler talks with fewer leading men in a week than Mussolini calls in and actively bosses in a day. By last week German industrialists, whose every major move is controlled by either the Economics Ministry or the Reichsbank or both, were nearly frantic as they tried to find out what was actually going to be the future policy of these two vital Government departments...
...plant hormone would stimulate enough vegetation to girdle the earth at the equator. Researchers can now detect the effect on one plant of one ten-billionth of a gram of hormone. No subject has excited plant physiologists more than this in the past decade, and it has seen its major development in the last five years. Yet it was foreshadowed a half century ago by Julius von Sachs, a brilliant German who reasoned that roots and flowers must be produced by special chemical substances, root-forming and flower-forming, elaborated in plant tissue. The foundations of the science were laid...
...game on last week's schedule-between Minnesota, and Nebraska-was one in which an upset was inevitable. Minnesota, which had lost only one game (to Northwestern in the mud last year) since 1932, was being touted as the most highly regarded team in the U. S. But Major Lawrence ("Biff") Jones was making his debut as Nebraska's coach, and Major Jones had never in his coaching career lost an opening game...
...with trying. She did not revise that assumption until she was 16 and found herself facing the great Moila Bjurstedt Mallory in the final for the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills. Hard-driving Mrs. Mallory won in straight sets. Next year Helen Wills played in all the major preliminary tournaments in the East and when Forest Hills, the final and Mrs. Mallory came around again, she recaptured her assurance by winning in straight sets. To celebrate she had pastry and three cups of chocolate for breakfast...