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Word: 98th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of a wall, sent guests scurrying. Police found no bomber. . . . A bomb went off in the doorway of Broker Charles H. McCarthy's apartment, damaged furniture, tore out a wall . . . More bombs have exploded in Chicago in 1929 than in any other year-the year's 98th emptied in one John Coyle's saloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...year-old twin sons of Gen. Charles Henry Montgomerie y Agramonte, heard that their father had celebrated his 98th birthday on the porch of his home in Popotla, near Mexico City, with many a friend and with the words: "All my life I have drunk Bourbon whiskey and I haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth-in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...which has previously set forth that the present Emperor was the 122nd in descent from Jimmu. It now appears that the Emperor Chokei (1368-1372 A. D.) was a real person, and not mythological as was previously supposed. He was inserted in the official records last week as the 98th Emperor of Japan. Thereupon, with impressive phraseology it was announced at Tokyo that the present Emperor is not the 122nd but the 123rd sublime ruler of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Imperial Error | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...98th year he was seated at his desk when the "Wall Street bomb'" explosion occurred. When shattered glass suddenly fell on the floor beside him, he calmly directed that it be cleaned up, proceeded with his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oldest Banks | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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