Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, celebrating its 80th birthday, held a drawing for cash prizes, proposed to publicize the winners in a splash of goodwill advertising. Winner of the $1,000 capital prize: Mildred Rosebud Baturin. Ruefully the Patriot paid $1,000 to Mildred Rosebud Baturin, associate society editor of the rival Harrisburg Telegraph...
...Koch's expedition, operating from the sturdy little baseship Gustav Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded...
...when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th...
Speaking before the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual meeting in New York Thursday evening, Irving Babbitt '89, professor of French Literature, delivered an address on "The Problem of Style in a Democracy." The meeting was largely given ever to the celebration of the 80th birthday of Dr. Henry van Dyke, noted author and clergyman...
...This impatience cost Manhattan's Empire State Building nearly $400,000 for extra elevators. The space those elevators occupy takes more than four acres from the building's rentable space. The Empire State owners could have saved space & money by running 20 double-deck elevators to the 80th floor instead of the present 36 single-deck passenger cars which go that high. But the owners figured their building would quickly fill up with tenants whose rents would pay for the extra elevators and the lost floor space. More fundamentally, the owners were pressed for time in construction, feared...