Word: 22nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintained in general its positions, but it was quite otherwise with General Cough's Fifth Army. Along almost the whole of its front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused and shaken troops, driven in by the heavy attack on the front line. The Somme, running several miles in rear, was captured...
Minutiae. With no great power except Russia ready to talk disarmament, and with all the others doubting Russia's good faith, the Commission for the 22nd time came to a full stop, spent last week piddling with minutiae...
Died. Charles Manly Stedman, 89, for the past 20 years Democratic Representative from the 5th District of North Carolina, oldest member and only Civil War veteran in Congress; the 22nd member of the present Congress to die; of apoplexy, at Mount Alto Hospital in Washington. Before the Civil War, Stedman persuaded authorities of the University of North Carolina to confer his degree three months early so that he could join the Confederate Army before fighting began. With Lee's army he was thrice wounded. He entered Congress when he was 69. All his life he bathed once or twice, frequently...
...banged loudly, 25 times each in the tense stillness of the shoot-off. Scott missed his second bird, Crampton his sixth and eighth. Casey missed his twelfth, leaving young King ahead until he missed his 14th. Then Casey missed his 19th, Scott and King shot along even until the 22nd bird. There Scott cracked, dropped three birds in a row while young King coolly ran out his string for the championship...
...East Deer, Pa., 18-year-old John Martinkovich broke his right leg for the 22nd time...