Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tackle football, being a major sport in the complicated scoring system, brings 50 points to each House entering a team, 100 points for the winning team, and down the line--85, 70, 60, 50, 40, 35, and 30 points...
This year the cross-country team came through with thoroughly unsuccessful season, dropping all their major meets. Prospects are expected to be somewhat better next fall...
...cable, which cost nearly $13 million, is about as thick as a rolled-up newspaper, and contains eight coaxial tubes, a pair of which can carry 600 simultaneous phone conversations or two TV programs. The final adjustments should be completed early in 1949. The first major event to be televised from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River will probably be President Truman's inauguration in Washington...
...actidione has been proved only against powdery mildew of beans, tomatoes and roses under greenhouse conditions. But agricultural scientists are excitedly testing it on other plants infected with a long list of other fungus diseases. If actidione kills the smuts, blights, rusts and wilts of the major farm crops, it will have a tremendous effect on the world's food supply: fungi probably steal as much food from man as all the world's insects...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...