Word: 79th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enthroned. Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 64, the 79th successor to St. Augustine as Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, with royal pomp and circumstance in the historic cathedral of his See. Long intimate friend, honorary chaplain of Queen Victoria, persistent and smiling bachelor in spite of her advice to marry, Dr. Lang was most recently Archbishop of York...
...thousand doctors signed their names in the registration book of the American Medical Association in Minneapolis last week. The 79th annual get-together was in session; from all parts of the U. S. doctors had come to pool their problems and share their results. Minnesota's governor, the Hon. Theodore Christiansen, gave them hearty welcome, then the 15 scientific divisions went into action, 400 learned papers were presented and earnestly discussed...
Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...
...Smoot who is a member of the Debt Funding 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...
...office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...