Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completeness in your Music department? You claim to "note the noteworthy" in record releases. Yet in your July 4 issue, you fail to mention the Franck Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, superlatively played by Rubinstein and Heifetz...
...Three major centres of world research in cryogenics are: the University of Leyden in Holland, Oxford University in England, the University of California in the U. S. In California the work is directed by handsome, dapper William Francis Giauque, who first devised the method of cooling magnetic salts closer to absolute zero than had previously been done. His method makes use of the principle that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down...
...appeared at training camp as a grinning, chattering rookie in 1922. One of the greatest catchers of all time, with a lifetime batting average of .300, 200-lb. Gabby Hartnett, still grinning, last week succeeded Charlie Grimm as manager of the team to which he has devoted his whole major-league career...
There were 368 boats, 1,500 sailors (from seven to 74). Craft ranged from little Nimblets that looked like wooden bath tubs to twelve-metre boats that looked like debutante sisters of America's Cup yachts. Of the 36 classes, major interest centred on three...
...make silk, the silk worm reduces the cellulose in mulberry leaves to a protein liquid which it spins into a cocoon. Result of man's learning to imitate this technique is the 45-year-old rayon industry. A major source for the cellulose is "dissolving pulp," wood pulp processed further than for making newsprint. Last week, the largest "dissolving pulp" company in the world, Rayonier Inc., announced "the highest earnings in the history of the company and its predecessors"-$3,124,703 for the twelve months ended April 30; this was almost a million more than for the previous...