Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cartographers divide the South Polar regions into Pacific, Australian, African and American Quadrants. The Pacific Quadrant is between the 90th and 180th lines of west longitude...
...holding-up of a Grand Trunk Railway train at 90th street by six bandits who bombed open the mail car and made off with...
...first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
...Philadelphia, 137 miles from Washington where Surgeon Mayo talked, one of these older men, himself a surgeon, made his comments on old age. He was Surgeon William Williams Keen, who celebrated his 90th birthday during the week. Great technician in brain surgery, he has written much on diverse medical subjects; has taught; has fought, in the War. Governments have given him their medals of gratitude, students their adulation. Of old age, he said last week: "It just happened. I have lived a happy life and am fortunate in having made many friends. I love life and I have no sure...
...hopes of the more liberal element of the Church for such a rapprochement were feelingly expressed to newsgatherers last week by Cardinal Vannutelli, on the eve of his 90th birthday, in earnest quavering speech: "Mussolini is the man chosen by God to direct Italy to her glorious goal. I pray for him daily. . . . Negotiations for the reconciliation of the Church and State are making gratifying headway, and we are confident that a settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent...