Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball games. On May 15, when Joe's bat got hot, the Yankees were in fourth place in the American League pennant race, six and a half games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Last week, after Di Maggio's historic homer helped his team win their 20th game in 24, the Yankees were in first place, three games in front of Cleveland. And only two days away was July 4, the traditional day when the league-leader foreshadows the winner of the pennant...
Died. Prince George Valentine Bibesco, 61, pioneer flier; in Bucharest. He was the 20th man to receive an international pilot's license, commanded the Rumanian Air Force in the Balkan war of 1913, bombed his own country's oil fields for the Rumanian general staff as an ally of Britain in World War I. For the past eleven years he had been president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale...
Last week a cynical 20th-century warlord used 16th-Century emotions to turn a conquest into a crusade...
...Some of the people of Europe and America may wish even to crucify Japan in the 20th Century. We are prepared to be crucified. But we do believe, and firmly believe, that in a very few years world opinion will be changed and we also shall be understood by the world as Jesus of Nazareth...
...memoirs, state papers, conspiratorial records of revolutionary parties and governments, data on plot and counterplot, war, espionage, assassination, treason. Far more complete than the great French, British and German war libraries (even if these were available), the Hoover Library makes Stanford the future focus for all important study in 20th-century social history...