Word: 94th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...94th renewal of the U.S.'s oldest intercollegiate sporting event, Harvard's smooth-stroking varsity crew led from the start, fashioned a workmanlike 2½ length victory over Yale in a four-mile race on the Thames at New London, Conn...
...life, the sharp old man paused happily each birthday among the scrap baskets full of congratulations to thank his cloistered friend for her good wishes. "If I try to sneak into paradise behind you they will be too glad to see you to notice me," he wrote once. His 94th and last birthday marked the end of these exchanges: "God must be tired of all these prayers for this fellow Shaw whom He doesn't half like. He has promised His servant Laurentia that He will do His best for him, and we had better leave it at that...
...stem Catholic opposition to integration, newspaper ads appeared recently to announce a state-chartered Association of Catholic Laymen (annual dues, $1 or more), organized to fight the strong integrationism of the church. Mississippi's Presbyterian Synod has directly challenged the antisegregationist resolution of the Southern Presbyterians' 94th General Assembly. The "matter of segregation," said the synod, is a "highly controversial political issue...
...fight as a member of the German "volunteer" Condor Legion in Spain, came home a squadron leader. In 1942, after three years of World War II, Fighter Pilot Galland was 30, a major general, a top-ranking ace, and inspector general of the Luftwaffe fighter command. After his 94th kill, Hitler personally hung the diamond-studded Knight's Cross around Galland's neck...
...Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor Co., tenth) did not even appear among the first 100 in 1909. Says Kaplan: "Industrial leadership at the big business level is precarious...