Word: 59th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better of the sisters in remodeling a hotel into a hospital, the little Italian nun fired them out of hand, tucked up her habit, and stumped about the scaffoldings for weeks directing the laborers herself. She was an American after America's heart, and in 1909, in her 59th year, she became a U.S. citizen...
...always, the crews lined up for the first day's race in the order they finished the previous year (Jesus has been "Head of the River" for nine of the past twelve years). So Bull College was put near the tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed...
Moscow's hero worshipers fast week heard the latest: Major Alexander Pokryshkin had shot down his 59th enemy plane, was still beyond challenge, the ace of all Allied aces...
...well be Norway's six Lutheran Bishops still at liberty but not officiating, since they refuse to recognize the quisling church setup. Out of reach of questioners is Bishop Eivind Berggrav, whom the Nazis guard in solitary confinement in a cottage near Oslo. Bishop Berggrav observed his 59th birthday last month. As a birthday present, the Nazis took him, under heavy guard, to the dentist...
Evidence from Quebec. At its 59th annual convention in Quebec, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, representing 1,828 local unions, demanded that Mackenzie King's Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, be fired at once. The convention cheered Ernest Ingles, delegate from Vancouver, as he charged that both the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and Canada's conscription system were "anti-labor." Delegate Ingles called W.P.T.B. Chairman Donald Gordon "the strongest Nazi element in this country...