Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...21st day a floating coconut provided slightly brackish milk and meat. By then, as far as he could tell, Dixon was "somewhere in the vicinity of Ireland." Trying to catch another albatross, he had upset the boat and lost his chart...
While millions of U.S. newspaper readers cheered, a comic-strip character had his 21st birthday last week. He was Skeezix Wallet, star of Frank King's saga of homey, U.S. middle-class life, Gasoline Alley. Unlike most other comic-strip characters, Skeezix has grown every day since a flabbergasted Uncle Walt found him on the doorstep of his home. At Springfield's Illinois State Museum, Skeezix's birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of Cartoonist King's original Skeezix drawings. They showed that, in the course of some 34,000 pictures of Skeezix, Cartoonist King...
...London, Sir Arnold Trevor Bax, 58, was appointed Master of the King's Musick, the 21st in an unbroken line since Charles II re-established the post in 1660. Famed as a poetic Neo-Celt composer, Sir Arnold has. never been obliged to earn his living, has never held any office before. His new job, the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, has been a sinecure since Edward VII abolished State concerts...
...hoped-for successes, bottling the German tank forces and then destroying them, were at least postponed by the same act of cutting. It was accomplished by a convergence on Sidi Rézegh, southeast of Tobruk, of the three main Axis tank forces-Germany's 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions, Italy's Battering Ram Division...
...group, gathered in Indianapolis for the 21st annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies (teachers of geography, economics, history, etc.), had spent three days pondering how to produce better citizens and a better world. They had heard their president, George Peabody College's Professor Fremont P. Wirth, and Harvard's Professor Howard E. Wilson accuse them of teaching history to little or no purpose. Then Professor Schmitt let loose. Said...