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Word: majorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Chester E. Sargent will sponsor his varsity malletmen in a match with the local Satirev trio as the regular Commonwealth Armory League begins its three-month season tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO TEAM WILL FACE SATIREV OUTFIT HERE | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

...recurring warfare of the old world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively adroit political manipulation in the Senate--this wishful thinking continued and increased. Until very recently America has been deeply, blindly isolationist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD--1939 VERSION | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

...biggest box-office stars of the year, listed by Motion Picture Herald in its annual poll of 10,000 independent U. S. theatre owners, and representing for the first time stars of only two of Hollywood's major companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye" (Wordsworth) is the perpetual slogan on the front cover of Nature, which Writer H. G. Wells has called "one of the best newspapers in the world." A weekly published in London, Nature is an international clearing house for major scientific research, the most famed scientific journal in existence. Scientists all over the world grab copies of Nature from the postman much as cowboys grab for their favorite pulps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I've Been So Busy | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...grant freight rates for Government traffic, creation of a Transport Board to supervise all transport, creation of a special railroad court to handle reorganizations, loosening of RFC purse strings, and relieving ICC of the necessity of certifying that roads borrowing from RFC are not in need of reorganization. Only major additions were pleas for a flexible rate structure adaptable to changing business conditions, for equal taxes on competing forms of transport, for terminating ICC sponsorship of consolidations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Carrier Cudgeling | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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