Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frantic fanatics flooded George Herman ("Babe") Ruth with the wildest ovation ever accorded a baseball player. In the eighth inning of a New York game against Washington, Ruth hit a ball pitched by left-handed Thomas Zachary into the right field bleachers. The home-run was Ruth's 60th of the season...
...Asta, Italy, one Giovanni Noverre made a wager. He then drank a glass of water, another five glasses,* another 14 glasses, another 23 glasses, then very slowly nine more, then seven more taken in gulps and sips; finally he raised the 60th glass poured it drop by drop down his gullet. After this glass, his wager won, Giovanni Noverre fell down and died...
Thus, in sonorous phrase, Mayor Mederic Martin of Montreal called its citizens last week by proclamation to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Canadian Constitution. Throughout Canada virtually all other mayors made similar proclamations, though none exceeded the majestic fervor of the Mayor of Montreal...
...course they were speaking very strictly indeed. Not every 'prentice draughtsman, not any workaday engineer, is an "architect" to the directors of the American Institute of Architects, who made this slender census estimate at the Institute's 60th convention last week in Washington...
...Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome. At the Institute's 60th Convention, next month, Chairman C. Grant La-Farge of the new committee will explain what the Institute means by "collaboration" among U. S. architects, mural painters, landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives on the new committee. include celebrated teachers aswell as practitioners-bristling little Paul P. Cret, whom students...