Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JAPANESE DEFEAT A MAJOR DISASTER: CRISIS IN CABINET...
...most exciting days in modern Chinese history ripped past, every fresh dispatch made it clearer that first reports of the Battle of Taierchwang had not erred in suggesting this was going to prove the first major open field defeat of the Japanese since their Empire was Awaked up by Commodore Perry. Continuing last week to taste Japanese blood in a big way, the Chinese pushed northward through bombed, shelled and ruined Taierchwang in which not a house was left standing according to white eyewitnesses, chased Japanese 20 miles to Yihsien, where the Mikado's routed forces finally made...
Instead of religious schools government-controlled secular education was expanded. Boy Scout movements were encouraged, the army was taught to read and write. Mohammedan law was largely nullified. The vexing problem of land titles was solved, one major result being that suddenly vast, rich areas became known as "crown property"-i.e., were simply taken by the Shah...
...Washington oarsmen: a clean sweep over the University of California crews (varsity, junior varsity, freshman) in the No. 1 regatta of the Pacific Coast; for the fourth year in a row; on Lake Washington, Seattle. For the varsity crew, U. S. and Olympic champions, it was the 19th consecutive major victory in three years...
...much balderdash. Remarking on the railroad crisis, stagnation of new building, lack of substantial upturn in automobile production, fall in security prices, increase in unemployment and lack of a spring upturn. Colonel Ayres decided that the present lull is only the end of the first stage of a major depression. Gloomed he: "The physical volume of industrial production appears to have dropped to more than 40% below the computed normal level in March. . . . There has been only one year in all our history when production averaged more than 40% below normal and that was 1932, at the bottom...