Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growth hormones have been discovered in plants. The major ones are "Auxin A," "Auxin B" and "Heteroauxin." Academic research on plant-growth hormones, mainly done within the past decade, has plowed its ground so well that commercial hormone preparations are now available to nurserymen to stimulate root growth in cuttings...
...course, takes comprehensive examinations when he thinks he is ready to go from the junior to the senior division, where he specializes in one field. To graduate (usually, but not necessarily, after four years), he must pass an examination, given by a professor from another college, in his major field. Although they need not go to classes, most students do. Classes are informal, are often held outdoors. Boys and girls wear shorts or jeans, smoke, call their teachers by their first names...
Putting in a false front tooth is a major feat in dental engineering. Usually dentists get around the difficulty by fitting their patients with removable bridges, often uncomfortable. Sometimes they pare down neighboring teeth, use them as anchors for a permanent bridge...
...They will cause shipyards to step up production little if at all. Reason: shipbuilding is one industry in which large companies are already operating at virtually full capacity. Major U. S. shipyards, with a backlog of $1,062,800,000 of U. S. Navy business, are jammed up, cannot get busy on more new orders until ships now on the ways are launched...
...First Slavonic Dance (in C major) Dvorak *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Irish Tune from County Derry Grainger *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius Pastorale and Procession Langendoen (Conducted by the composer) *Symphonic Variations, for Piano and Orchestra Franck Soloist: Elizabeth Siedhoff *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Bach Goes to Town" (A Fugue in Swing) Templeton *"Washington Post," March Sousa...