Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week, Congress in four months had made progress only on national defense, deficiency appropriations, reorganization. It had finished only four out of eleven major supply bills. Committee hearings but no debates had been held on such time-takers as revision of Social Security, Labor Relations, Wages & Hours...
Last week the mental strain was more than sensitive Yankee Gehrig could bear. The highest-salaried ($34,000 a year) baseballer in the major leagues had succeeded in getting only four hits and driving in only one run in the first eight games of the season. Every time he went to bat he felt that all the baseball fans in the world could hear him creak. When he got a hit he ran as though there were lead in his shoes. He missed low throws and grounders. Convinced that he was a hindrance rather than a help to his team...
...protect patients from greedy surgeons, Dr. Bernheim suggests a major operation: "cut out the surgeon-eliminate him entirely from private practice." All surgeons, he believes, should have their offices in hospitals and should receive salaries from hospitals. Patients should choose their hospitals, but leave the choice of their surgeon up to the chief of staff. This system is practiced in the "justly famous" Mayo Clinic. If it were put into general operation, says Dr. Bernheim, surgeons would become more highly specialized and hospitals would weed out inefficient men. Of course, "surgeons won't like it ... but men ought...
...another test of reasoning from, economic facts, students were to tell the effect on supply, demand and the price of American wheat in the world market if a major European war broke out and agricultural wage rates in the U. S. rose...
...posts. The Times would send him to Moscow or to Mexico City, its vacancy in Rome having been filled last month by Spanish War Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. Although Hitler has caught up with him in his last two posts, Correspondent Gedye, feeling sure the next major crisis would come in Western Europe, probably over Gibraltar, sailed gaily for Russia at week...