Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rotarians and their families descended on Rio de Janeiro last week for the 39th International Convention, Rio's cariocas braced themselves for the worst. They had seen U.S. conventioneers in the movies-Shriners in outlandish costumes and rowdy, boisterous Legionnaires. Shopkeepers hopefully put "Welcome, Rotary" signs in their windows, fearfully wondered if they should board them...
...39th Generation. The little man with the grave manner and impish smile, courtly graces and arrogant attitudes, had waited long to become cock of the Arab walk. He was not likely to risk losing that position...
...life had been one long schooling in the devious ways of Arab rivals-and of great powers. Abdullah was born in Mecca 66 years ago, into one of the proudest families of Islam, the Hashimites, in the 39th generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic...
Most U.S. college fraternities keep out Negroes and Jews, and in some cases Catholics. They don't talk about it. But their own silence has not kept others from talking. In Manhattan last week, 500 delegates to the 39th National Interfraternity Conference met to beat around the subject, if not to face it squarely. They went away seemingly satisfied with the justifications offered by their chairman, David A. Embury, 61, a Cornell alumnus ('08) and a member of Acacia. Said he: "There is nothing arbitrary or capricious or unnatural about . . . restrictions based on race, creed or color. . . . [Fraternity...
Harvard finishers: Bill Baker, 18th; John Cogan, 28th; Captain Huna Rosenfeld, 29th; Joe Leeming, 39th; George Anderson, 48th; Arden Albee, 54th, Harvard Wilbur, 58th...