Word: 41st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...41st precinct of the 16th ward is a low-income Negro district. Ike lost it in 1952, scoring a paltry 25.5%. This time he received 41%-and Negro switches of similar size were reported in city after city of the Northeast...
Before the 41st annual convention of Kiwanis International Club in San Francisco, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles last week delivered the first full-dress U.S. answer to Nikita Khrushchev's celebrated "secret" speech in the Kremlin (TIME, June 11 ). Reading solemnly from a text that the President had approved in outline, Dulles marked out the fronts in the essential conflict before the world: on one side despotism, however muted; on the other democracy, however confused...
...motion pictures have passed from the experimental to the practical phase, the Radiological Society of North America was told at its 41st annual meeting in Chicago. The X-ray movies verify accurately what diagnostic physicians have only been able to guess about, e.g., the swallowing process (which doctors found varies greatly from person to person), the stomach's pushing action (gastric peristalsis), speech defects, heart anomalies...
...famed Académie Française enjoy a specific patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many of France's greatest writers have been barred from the academy for reasons that had little to do with their greatness. The academy's mythical "41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose living and houseful of illegitimate children were too much for the academicians; Encyclopedist Denis Diderot, who was a deal too outspoken; and plump, ill-dressed, Bohemian Honor...
...taking second with a 44.0 clocking, and freshman Karim Khan tied for third with the Big Green's Dick Perkins in 44.4. Further down the list were perennial entrants Al Sise '28 in 12th place, ski coach Graham Taylor '49 in 15th, and former Olympian Alec Bright '19 in 41st place...