Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow last week 68-year-old Joseph Stalin, his eyes filled with tears, buried one man who might have been his successor. Politburo Member and Cominform Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov died of arteriosclerosis in his 53rd year...
...Buck Hill Falls, Pa., 250 delegates to the 53rd annual meeting of the Foreign Missions Conference last week heard how plenteous indeed the harvest is. Reported Yale Divinity School's Dr. Kenneth Scott Latourette...
Delighted German spectators watched a crack soccer team from Düsseldorf defeat the British 53rd Division's team. A German in the stands crowed triumphantly to a British soldier: "You don't know what this victory means to Düsseldorf. For the first time we have beaten you at your national game...
...Partisan performance of Rigoletto, British and Yugoslav soldiers sat next to each other with Tommy guns resting on their knees. (At a banquet in celebration of Tito's 53rd birthday, British General Sir John Harding, U.S. General William Livesay, and other Allied officers dined & drank with their Partisan "enemies...
Wendell Lewis Willkie, on what would have been his 53rd birthday, was posthumously honored by Freedom House, liberal, non-political educational organization, which officially announced a campaign to raise $250,000 for the purchase of a nine-story Manhattan building (occupied for 26 years by the old New York Club), planned to dedicate it as the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building on the first anniversary of his death...