Word: 138th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion was the 138th anniversary of Panama's independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over. They drowned out the speaker with screams of "Viva Russia!" "Viva Fidel Castro!" and "To the Zone!", charged out of the square. Outflanking Panamanian National Guardsmen, they rushed across Fourth of July Avenue (the zone border) and rammed a flagstaff into soft Canal Zone earth. "All right, now," said...
...Crimson captured twelfth, with 352. Dyke Benjamin, coming on stronger toward the finish was forty-third, but no one else finished in the top hundred. Willie Thompson was 103rd, Dave Donaldson 117th, Will Julian 118th, and EdMartin 138th in a field...
...Point (from U.S. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas). This was John's own decision, as were later choices, e.g., applying for infantry duty; his father counseled but never interfered. A modest, natural "hive" (scholar), he spent much of his time at the Military Academy coaching deficient plebes, graduated 138th in a class of 474 (his father was 61st among 164) on June 6, 1944, the day General Eisenhower sent invasion forces storming ashore at Normandy...
...Orlan Lee '56 and John E. Trent '58 won first prizes of $35 in the finals of the 138th annual Boylston Speaking Contest last night. Lee's selection came from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, and Trent presented "The Trial of Jabez Stone" from The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet...
...general to succeed retiring General Albert Orsborn, 67. British General-elect Wilfred Kitching, 60, a Salvationist for 40 years and onetime secretary to Founder William Booth, predicted a new surge of Salvation Army activity, especially in Africa, Indonesia and India. ¶ The American Bible Society reported at its 138th annual meeting that distribution of the Scriptures in the U.S. increased by 140% during the past five years to reach an alltime high of 9,726,391 volumes during...