Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon every newspaper bureau in Washington, in and out of season, rains political publicity. Produced mostly by verbose, news-ignorant hacks, these handouts are sluiced into the trashbasket unread. As they never get into print, they represent a major waste in political party management...
Below medium height, with crinkly greying hair, stooped shoulders, prominent nose, drawly disarming voice, he writes with a sharpness and penetration that belie his mild appearance. As a political prophet he ranks low, for he alone of the major forecasters held out hope last year of a Brown Derby triumph. That, however, will be no handicap for him in his new post...
...Frenchman can hope to rise above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign of 1926 against Abd-El-Krim, General of Brigade...
Union of the Protestant sects, nowadays the major topic of Protestant discussions, received further advancement at the Christian Herald Conference for laymen and churchmen (TIME, June 10), which closed last week at Buck Hill Falls...
...during almost every other major English sporting event this season, it rained last week during the British Amateur Golf Championship in Sandwich. The weather made antic the play of visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...