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Word: 39th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul's Catholic Club will hold its 39th annual ball and supper-dance in the main ballroom of the Hotel Statler on Monday, April 17. J. R. Canavan '34, chairman of the ball committee, has announced that the proceeds will be donated to the Saint Vincent de Paul of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Catholic Club To Dance | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

Since 1920 U. S. population's centre moved 22.3 mi. west and 7.6 mi. south. In 1790 this theoretical spot was 23 mi. east of Baltimore, has advanced 589 mi. westward along the 39th parallel in 140 years. Biggest advance-80.6 mi.-occurred in the seventh decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Dead Centre | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...ugly brick house on Fifth Avenue and 39th Street, Manhattan, Miss Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel had died (TIME, March 30 et ante) and dropped into the lap of Charity what the serious Press insisted upon calling a $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 fortune. Of that it seemed, at first glance, that Nanking Theological Seminary and four other institutions! were each to get 17 1/2%. And the famed Moody-founded Northneld schools of East Northfield, Mass., were to get 11½% which looked like $1,000,000?ample to complete its current endowment campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Analysis of a Windfall | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

Died. Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, 80, last and youngest of Manhattan's rich, eccentric, land-owning Wendels; of apoplexy in the night; in the famed old Wendel house at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue. Ever since the. first John Gott- lieb Wendel, contemporary of John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in furs, the family had followed his precept: Buy, but never sell, property. Heiress of at least $100,000,000 in real estate, Ella Wendel lived all her life a recluse in the ugly old red-brick house (last appraised at $6,000) on the corner (last appraised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

From a dog's point of view, the long, wide Manhattan boulevard which humans have named Park Avenue and enthusiasts call the world's finest residential street, is not the place it used to be. The change dates about from the time when the policeman at 39th Street berated old Miss Wendel, the recluse who lived with her maiden sisters in the big brick house on Fifth Avenue, for bringing her elderly poodle over to Park Avenue for airings when she had a perfectly good yard of her own in which it could run, sniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Poisoned Promenade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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