Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University officials held their breaths for the 27th year in a row this week, as they thought about the weather and Commencement Day--two items that have to fit together nicely...
...27th installment of his memoirs in the New York Times, Cordell Hull told a homy story about his wartime (1943) flight to Moscow. It was the first time he had ever been in an airplane, and he was being shown the emergency escape panels in case the craft had to come down on water. Related Hull: "The fact of several exits reminded me of the old gentleman in Tennessee who kept three cats. A friend, visiting him one day, noticed three large semicircular holes cut in ... the front door. 'What are those for?' he asked...
Despite these handicaps, the team is moving ahead and, according to Stewart Bennett, one of the postwar organizers, has scheduled three more games: "We play Norwich on their mounts on March 20 and have a return match with Yale on the 27th," Bennett said yesterday. A tentative match with Williams is set for next spring on the ponies they borrow from the Pittsfield polo club. "That's the kind of arrangement we'd like to make around this area," he added...
Unless large Sam Felton breaks a leg between now and 12:30 o'clock, Harvard should grab an early lead in the 27th annual indoor IC4A track and field championships at New York today...
...half of his answer to Gallup pollsters asking Britons which of their famed countrymen (dead or alive) they most wanted to talk to. "If I craved for entertaining conversation by a first-class raconteur," Shaw went on, "I would choose Oscar Wilde."* In the poll, Shaw himself ranked 27th. Most-sought-after...