Word: 76th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of the nation's health could be a lot better. That was what they said again & again in Boston last week at the 76th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association...
Died. Tommy Ryan (real name: Joseph Youngs), 78, prizefighter of the skin-tight glove era, who won fame in 1891 when he knocked out Danny Needham in the 76th round, retired as middleweight champion of the world in 1907; in Los Angeles...
...literary news, therefore, that in the 76th summer of De la Mare's life, his work has at long last gotten some of the critical recognition it deserves. In April a book of praises from some of England's most respected writers came out on his birthday; last month the Crown made him a Companion of Honor (TIME, June...
...76th veto since he took office. He vetoed 22 bills...
Last week Webb School of Tennessee opened for its 76th year, and 155 Southern boys squirmed on the same hard wooden benches in front of the pot-bellied stove where Old Sawney had called many an earlier class to order. Old Sawney was long since gone, but Webb School, about 50 miles southeast of Nashville, still sticks to Greek and Latin drills and the no-nonsense teaching that made the old man the South's leading prep-school educator for more than 50 years. The headmaster now is Old Sawney's son, William Robert Webb Jr., 72 himself...