Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major sensations or scandals came out of Representative Smith's cool and detached political comedy; the Smith Committee, like a weary old cynic, only cast a jaundiced eye at the labor relations of these idealistic experts on labor relations. Humorless Labor Board members, forgetting industry's long complaints that Labor Board inquiries hampered work, fretted and fidgeted at the Smith investigation. It was a nuisance, they said, as irritable as captains of industry; it delayed the Labor Board's work...
...huntin', shootin' and fishin' aristocrat of old England is Esme Ivo Bligh, 9th Earl of Darnley, a product of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, a major in the R.A.F. right through World War I. Last week he startled the Empire by rising in the House of Lords to urge that Great Britain should try to make with Germany an immediate peace without victory...
There were no leaks last week, but before the secret session began Laborites and Liberals said freely that they were going to raise the major issue of whether the Ministry of Supply under Leslie Burgin is a "bureaucracy gone mad," as charged by Socialist Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, which would like to get all British industry nationalized as a war measure. It was also intended to ask His Majesty's Government why thousands of miners are still jobless despite a coal shortage, and, finally, why the colossal rearmament program has not yet absorbed...
...form of paralysis compelled First Baseman Gehrig to give up his beloved post after 15 years with the New York Yankees, U. S. sportswriters wreathed their columns with encomiums seldom bestowed on the living. Skimming over the Iron Horse's unrivaled feat of playing in 2,130 consecutive major-league games and casually reviewing his extraordinary batting records (some surpassing those of Babe Ruth), they crowned Lou Gehrig's Honesty, Modesty, Courage. Practically canonized. 36-year-old Lou Gehrig became the idol of U. S. youth...
...root itself has no beneficial qualities in the treatment of illness. More recently sarsaparilla has found a major role as a flavoring for soft drinks. (CAUTION: But please do not assume that the hormones are derived from a bottle of soda...