Pilots of numbers 2 – 7 are Navy Lieutenants or Lieutenant Commanders, or Marine Corps Captains or Majors.

The school's sports teams are known as the Majors, and their colors are purple and white.

Together these four events are called the Majors or Slams ( a term borrowed from bridge rather than baseball ).

In the Majors, the singular term " playoff " is reserved for the rare situation in which two ( or more ) teams find themselves tied at the end of the regular season and are forced to have a tiebreaking playoff game ( or games ) to determine which team will advance to the postseason.

Majors are also elected in regional elections along governors of departments.

Majors are also offered in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, and Environmental Science.

Because none of the Majors were played on hardcourts in Laver's era ( both the US Open and Australian Opens were played on grass ), Laver never won a Grand Slam tournament on hardcourt ; this is quite different from the modern landscape, where half of the year's Majors are played on hardcourts.

Cross-belts resembling sashes are worn by Drum Majors in the Dutch, British and some Commonwealth armies.

* Drum Majors ( who do not conduct the band but are there purely to direct marching, to place halts and for show )

Branch Rickey, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, was the architect of the system which exists today, in which most minor league teams are affiliates of major league teams, supplying the Majors with development of younger players in exchange for financial support from the major league teams with which they are affiliated.

Current members of the Advisory Board are listed as: Jacques Barzun, Ph. D., Edward A. Capano, Denton Cooley, M. D., Midge Decter, Jorge Delgado, Dinesh Desai, Mrs. Richard DeVos, George Gilder, Nathan Glazer, Ph. D., Charles Gogolak, Lee Majors, Laura McKenzie, Harvey Meyerhoff, Barbara Mujica, Ph. D., Alex Olmedo, Arnold Palmer, Margie Petersen, Norman Podhoretz, Donald M. Ross, Randolph Rowland, James Schlesinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Norman D. Shumway, Rodney Smith, Alex Trebek, George W. Wilson, and Roger Wildermuth.

Currently there are dozens of politicians including Deputies, Majors and Senators from a full or mixed Maya heritage from the Yucatán Peninsula.

Majors are also known as soldiers or dinergates.

Majors are in engineering or science subjects or specialization in classics, modern or ancient history, modern languages, applied modern languages, geography, science and economics, law, computer science, physical education, political science or Asian studies.

Majors offered in Berklee are Composition, Contemporary Writing and Production, Electronic Production and Design, Film Scoring, Jazz Composition, Music Business / Management, Music Education ( degree only ), Music Production and Engineering, Music Therapy ( degree only ), Performance, Professional Music, and Songwriting.

Most students that participate in the Music Ensembles are not Music Majors, but rather have a strong interest in pursuing their musical capabilities.

Board members consist of a HQ AFPC Colonel, and at least a majority of the board members must be TPS graduates ( Majors or Lieutenant Colonels ) who are standing flight test squadron commanders.

Majors are available in accounting, biology, business administration, chemistry, Christian ministry, criminal justice, education ( elementary, middles grades, physical, secondary and special ), English / communication, health, history, history / political science, mathematics, psychology, recreation management, religious studies, sociology and sports management.

By the beginning of The Armour of Contempt, there are three cultural sections: Tanith, Verghastite and Belladon ; led by Majors Rawne, Kolea and Baskevyl respectively ( each is native to the section he commands ).

There are a number of businesses that build custom ice cream vans / Mr Whippy vans, such as Majors Group and all other business in Australia and New Zealand.

Senior officers are classified as Brigadiers, Majors General and Lts General.

The subsequent comeback back to the Majors despite the illness made national headlines and encouraged research on the disease.

On the road to the Cup, the Teepees defeated the Toronto St. Michael's Majors for the OHA championship, and the Brockville Canadiens to win the Richardson Trophy as eastern Canadian representatives.

Shirley drawbridge ( bridge No. 8 ) at Majors Green on the northern branch

In the spring of 1858 Russell, Majors and Waddell started freighting from Nebraska City on a government contract to transport all provisions for all western forts.

Interestingly, the owners of the destroyed wagons Russell, Majors and Waddell were never reimbursed by the government and in 1860 they formed the Pony Express to stave off bankruptcy with a new government mail contract.

The Majors had a fierce football and basketball rivalry with Mississippi College in nearby Clinton through the 1950s before competition was suspended after an infamous student brawl at a basketball game.

Eventually, he became Chief Astronomer, Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages, and then Palace Attendant at the imperial court.

The World Marathon Majors series includes the five most prestigious marathon competitions at the elite level – the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City marathons.

Working from cells at Wormwood Scrubs, Worlledge selected Majors Sclater and Cole-Adams as his assistants and Walter Gill as his chief traffic analyst.

The earliest decks bore unnamed and unnumbered pictures on the Majors ( probably because a great many of the people using them at the time were illiterate ), and the order of cards was not standardized.

* Shirley Majors ( 1913 – 1981 ), patriarch of the Majors football family and former head coach at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1957-1977.

* Johnny Majors ( 1935 -), College Football Hall of Fame halfback at the University of Tennessee and head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones from 1968 – 1972, University of Pittsburgh Panthers 1973-76, 1993 – 96, and the Tennessee Volunteers 1977-1992.

Majors offered at Oglethorpe University include Accounting, American Studies, Art History, Studio Art, Behavioral Science & Human Resource Management, Biology, Biopsychology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Communication and Rhetoric Studies, Economics, Engineering, English, French, History, Individually Planned Majors, International Studies, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, and Theatre.

Several future great head coaches were assistant coaches for Frank Broyles and the Razorbacks during his college career in Fayetteville including Hayden Fry, future legendary Head Coach at the University of Iowa, Johnny Majors, future Head Coach at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Tennessee, and most notably Barry Switzer, Hall of Fame coach of the University of Oklahoma.

Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.

Jim Bridger ( right ) is honored along with Pony Express founder Alexander Majors ( left ) and Kansas City founder John Calvin McCoy at Pioneer Square in Westport in Kansas City.

World records have been broken at all five World Marathon Majors on numerous occasions ; seven times at the Berlin Marathon, three times at the Boston Marathon, and four times each at the Chicago, London, and New York City Marathons.

Additionally, in general the level of competition at the PCL is lower than that in the Majors, so a hitter in the PCL would likely have lesser raw statistics in the Majors.

He was drafted straight out of high school by the Minnesota Twins in the third round in, where after only 21 minor league starts he found himself called up to the Majors at age 19 on June 2, 1970.

He considered that day as " grateful " as it gave him an opportunity to play every day in the Majors, as he was blocked at first base by All-Star Mike Hargrove while at Texas.