Word: 78th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding chemical experiment of the year was performed last week at Minneapolis where the American Chemical Society was conducting its 78th annual meeting. Only a few score chemists witnessed the demonstration, and of those very few knew what it was all about...
From Philadelphia came the broadside of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher of the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Satevepost. Publisher Curtis who last week observed his 78th birthday, his 53rd year as a publisher, could not content himself with sharp, angry answer. He fought back. What about this man Siegfried, anyway? "He is said to be a professor. The title is very likely a misnomer." He groped for epithets. "Absurd," he cried . . . "Ridiculous . . . Ignorant...
...Washington the American Medical Association met for its 78th annual convention. Discussions and accomplishments...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...
...Commission. Mr. Yoakum saw Mr. Smoot last week and this time his terms were very lenient: 79 years instead of his former 50 for payment. He would likewise have the first year's interest payment be paid on he 79th year, the second year's on the 78th, and so on all through the period. This would reduce the first payment on a $4,000,000,000 debt such as France's from about $150,000,000 to about $40,000,000- equivalent to a heavy reduction in interest. He further recommends that these terms should...