Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be unfortunate for the public to get the idea that any one of these agents is of major importance in causing cancer, as present scientific knowledge does not bear this...
...foreign commitments was a speech in Chicago by the G.O. P.'s one living ex-President, Herbert Hoover. Said he: ". . . We are deluged with talk of war. . . . Amid these agitations President Roosevelt has now announced a new departure in foreign policies. . . . Our foreign policies in these major dimensions must be determined by the American people and the Congress, not by the President alone...
...Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund or inept: old Lewis of Illinois, heavy Barkley of Kentucky, thick-tongued Pittman of Nevada, bumbling McKellar of Tennessee...
...concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported in the press, a view which Dr. Pearl himself failed to share (TIME, Jan. 23). Longevity and population are only two of Raymond Pearl's major interests. Others are nutrition, death, eugenics, diseases of poultry...
...squad left Wednesday for the white hills of Hanover and hopes to work in some good practice before Friday and Saturday, the days for which the various events are scheduled. The Big Green is expected to retain its crown, with the major threats to its supremacy coming from McGill, Middlebury, and possibly Harvard. At any rate, Captain Hinton and Captain Bob Johansen of McGill will bear watching...