Word: 91st
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Thus on Dominion Day, the 91st anniversary of Canada's confederation, the big neighbors of North America thunderously marked completion of the major works in the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project (see color pages). For three days the unstopped waters of the St. Lawrence rushed into the basin above the international St. Lawrence Power Dam, and on July 4, Independence Day for Canada's U.S. partner in the project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple...
...Bureau in American History, a score which would put an independent school student in the 78th percentile ranking would put him into the 99th percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...
...Record: An infantry lieutenant in the Far West's 91st Division in World War I, severely wounded in the Meuse-Argonne sector; in World War II, which surprised him on holiday in Honolulu, he served as major in various stateside jobs...
Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emiritus, celebrated his 91st birthday Sunday Long considered one of the world's leading authorities on Emerson, Perry taught at the University from 1907 to 1930, and served as an Overseer from...
Much cheaper are the "test flights" performed for the Navy by the Reeves Instrument Corp., subsidiary of Claude Neon Inc. Reeves's rockets do not fly out of the heavily guarded laboratory on Manhattan's 91st Street. They are only electronic signals in an analogue computer's brain, but they have taught the Navy more about guided missiles than many real flights would...