Word: 33rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached 80,000 this year. Yet none of these facts seemed...
...expected to enter the event Monday, and Popell is aiming to finish in the first 35. In addition, he's betting that despite his complete lack of experience, if he gets past Wellesley, he can beat Clarence DeMar, alias Clarence DcMarathon, who will be entering the race for his 33rd time...
...President Truman rode over to St. Louis from Independence this week to honor one of his favorite clergymen : Rabbi Samuel Thurman, 71, for 40 years in charge of St. Louis' United Hebrew Congregation. Rabbi Thurman, like Truman a 33rd degree Mason, had worked with him for many years in state Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University...
...Billion Dollar Club" got a new corporate member last week. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., whose 1953 gross soared to $1,025,833,041, up 7% over 1952, became the 33rd U.S. corporation to rack up sales of more than $1 billion. One reason for the rise: Union Carbide's rapid expansion in the production of plastics...
Personal Characteristics: A big (6 ft. 1 in., 207 Ibs.), hearty, smiling, blue-eyed Westerner with thinning, blond-white hair, he has an easy, friendly manner, a booming laugh, a bone-crushing handshake. A working Mason (33rd degree, past Grand Master of California), he often reads the Bible before going to bed at night or the first thing in the morning. His staff knows him as a firm and exacting boss, but a fair and considerate one. He is neat, orderly, practical, unimaginative, calm, judicious and stubborn. Said an old friend and associate: "He'll be careful as hell...