Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unluckiest of all was mighty Pennsylvania Railroad. A Pennsy resort train was derailed near Howard City, Mich. (two killed). At Altoona, Pa. two freight trains and a train of empty passenger cars were derailed (one killed). The 80th victim of the wreck of the P.R.R.'s swift Congressional (TIME, Sept. 13) died in a Philadelphia hospital. Then, same day, an eight-alarm, $250,000 blaze swept through Philadelphia's old Broad Street station. Six empty passenger cars were burned to charcoal and scrap iron...
Frank Laubach has set up his charts for no less than 79 tongues, has recently been working on his 80th - Korean. Orthodox teachers have orthodox reservations about Laubach's teaching methods, but none whatever about the great success of his life work. Laubach himself gives full credit to God for sending him on a job at which he has "more fun than anybody else in the world." But he warns that reading, itself, is not enough-there must be the right kind of reading. "Democracy, Protestantism, and literacy are triplets...
...intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...
...nation fighting for its life, what is the priority rating of education? U.S. educators pondered that question last week at the 80th annual meeting of the National Education Association in Denver and concluded that education should have a higher priority than...
Birthdays. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president, of Columbia University: his 80th; at work, in Manhattan...