Search Details

Word: 36th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...African Queen and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Huston, 73, listened to the compliments by stars with whom he had worked during a 39-year career, including Lauren Bacall, Jose Ferrer and Richard Burton. Then, hardly pausing for rest, he flew off to Hungary to work on his 36th movie, Escape to Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 19, 1980 | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

ROCK AND ROLL is experiencing the mid-life crisis predicted for it long ago, and old rockers are dropping like stock in the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation. Yesterday was Mick Jagger's 36th birthday. As he ponders how to bow gracefully out of the premier position he's held for over a decade, other performers who have had less of a chance to stockpile tax-free bonds and Krugerrands are struggling to find ways to establish their financial security...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: My Generation, Past Thirty | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...years after Lyndon Baines Johnson's death, Widow Lady Bird, 66, has decided to sell 2,353 acres that the 36th President bought to enlarge the ranch, now a national historic site, where he lies buried. "I'm trying to shave off as many obligations, duties and responsibilities as I can," explains the former First Lady. She will continue to enjoy the L.BJ. Ranch on the Pedernales River to which she first came as a bride in 1934. Still, the territory to be sold was added with "much love and thrill and happiness and adventure." In two great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...state capitol. The women, like many others, are waiting for the legislators to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. ERA will die if not approved by 38 states before March 22,1979, and Illinois, the one Northern industrial state yet to pass the measure, could be the 36th. Ratification there would keep alive the amendment's slim chance of approval before the deadline. Even ERA supporters concede that defeat in Illinois would make it nearly impossible for them to persuade three other state legislatures to go along. In that case, the amendment could only be saved by a congressional vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ERA Countdown: ERA Countdown | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...eligibility lists, primarily on the basis of an exam. At one point, 29 new white sergeants were chosen in strict numerical rank from the top of a 298-man promotional eligibility list; then a matching group of blacks was promoted. Among the new black sergeants, the highest-ranking was 36th; the others ranged as far down the list as 264th place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Bakke Bottleneck | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next