Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation ago western civilization had apparently outgrown the major evils of barbarism except for war between nations. The Russian Communist Revolution promoted the evil of class war. Hitler topped it by another, race war. Fascism and Communism both resurrected religious war. These multiple forms of barbarism gave shape in 1938 to an issue over which men may again, perhaps soon, shed blood: the issue of civilized liberty v. barbaric authoritarianism...
...Hutch," a 200-lb., 6 ft. 2 in. righthander, the sensation of the West Coast last summer, had major-league scouts tripping over one another in the Rainiers' ball park. When he finished the season with 25 games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs...
...Washington, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold filed a brief explaining why the eight major motion picture companies, named last July in the Government's suit charging violation of the anti-trust law, were not entitled to a bill of particulars...
Physicians were cheered last week by reports of two promising treatments for major diseases...
TIME, in reporting on contemporary poetry, aims to publish, as impartially as it can, this constant news: that poets have a responsibility of major importance to everybody, which individual poets are fulfilling, evading or ignoring in varying degrees...