Word: 45th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stamford Raffles reached London with little more than the clothes he wore. At East India House, the Company directors handed the creator of Singapore a bill for expenses amounting to ?22,000. A few days later, on the morning of his 45th birthday, Raffles was found at the foot of his staircase, dead of apoplexy. Said the physician in his report: "The sufferings of the deceased must, for some time past, have been most intense...
...appearances the bet football team dick Harlow has fielded in his ten years at Harvard, a highly favored Crimson eleven comes to grips today with a much-mangled Brown Bear in the 45th renewal of their Ivy League rivalry. Bookmakers have made the Varsity a 14-point choice for the contest, which gets under way at the Stadium at 2 o'clock...
...prospective magazine with 212 bosses (and more on the way) was settling down in its new quarters. In an antiquated building on Manhattan's West 45th Street which used to house a speakeasy, Jerome Ellison, 38, onetime managing editor of Collier's and Liberty, last week was dummying one of the most talked-about publishing ventures of the year. Its name: Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc. Its aim: to publish a pocket-sized, "liberal," adless, 25? monthly, owned and operated by headliners of U.S. arts & letters...
...plain as Violet Attlee's red straw hat against the brown-&-black background of the Bournemouth Pavilion stage. The 1,179 Labor Party delegates to the 45th annual party conference had gathered last week to ratify policy, not to make...
...Buckingham Palace and Princess Elizabeth's dog Crackers (a Corgi) barked during a Carmen aria (excitement, explained the Queen). Then the bells of St. Paul's paid tribute, for the first time since the start of the war, to the Queen's birthday (her 45th...