Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive is being made to procure as wide a variety as possible of essays themes, or theses, which are being written not only by Harvard students, but by members of other universities throughout the country. The address of the Creative Arts Service in New York is 29 West, 54th Street...
...Clowning Belgian Gerard Debaets & daring little Alfred Letourner: $5,000, first prize in Manhattan's 54th International Six-Day Bicycle Race; with 1,054 points to 392 for Hill & Binda, 227 for Sheehan & Croley. On hand was the biggest crowd in U. S. cycling history, mostly to cheer for red-headed Torchy Peden, just back from Europe, and his French-Canadian partner, Jules Audy. They weakened at the finish. Grinning and reckless, red-shirted Debaets won seven of the last ten sprints to clinch first prize...
...month survey based "upon the best information available," Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock estimated that there were 3,844 places in Manhattan to buy liquor. Until razed to make way for Rockefeller Center, many a speakeasy flourished within a cork-pop of the Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...
...year of American circus and the 13th season of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, which no longer needs to bill itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth." For John Ringling, sole survivor of Barnum & Bailey and the seven brothers Rüngeling of Baraboo, Wis., it was his 54th season of showmanship, which began with a pin-show in an Iowa barn and now undisputedly monopolizes U. S. circus entertainment. The monopoly consists of six big tent shows, four of which this year will carry Circus into all profitable corners of the land...
Twenty-one teams figured in the final scoring of the 54th annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet in the Stadium last Saturday...