Word: 78th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English...
Crimson eleven turned Amherst out of Stadium on short end of 38-6 score. Glee club opens 78th season...
...known as Civilization's Journalist No. 1. Back in the protozoic slime of the Victorian Era he first saw his vision of Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet Player (104 pages), no less surprised by its ambiguous, unWellsian message...
...sitting 67 min. the House recessed. The Senate sat for only 20 min. There was no broadcasting, no photography, no pother about recessing until time for the President's speech. Republican Senator Borah, 70, expressed his "congratulations and esteem" on the eve of Democratic Senator Glass's 78th birthday (see p. 47). Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn. There were even a good-natured few willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction...
Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...