Word: eleventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international telegraphic reporting. Disregarding the jury's verdict (which recommended a prize to the New York Herald Tribune's Arch Steele), the committee handed the prize to roly-poly Eddy Gilmore, inoffensive Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press (TIME, Aug. 12).* It was the A.P.'s eleventh Pulitzer Prize. And an award to Brooks Atkinson (for a fine series of dispatches on Russia) was the New York Times's 20th...
With the possibility that the region will operate concertedly at the forthcoming convention, straw-votes were conducted on what the group thought would be major issues in Madison--an eleventh hour vote favoring affiliation with the International Union of Students...
...NFTW leader spoke after all day conferences with Labor Department officials Booking an eleventh-hour agreement to avoid the strike by submitting the issues to arbitration...
This morning Americans by the millions will tune their radios to the early newscasts to learn if the telephone strike whose certainty was termed beyond the "slightest question" has become a reality, or has been staved off by an eleventh hour formula pulled from Secretary Schwellenbach's fedora. Both sides have indicated willingness to submit to arbitration the unions' demands for higher wages and pensions, longer vacations, and other fringe issues. But, only a few hours before the strike deadline, there is still a large area of disagreement as to how the arbitration should be effected, particularly if it should...
...back windows on a cemetery. The dim living room was papered in dark green-a "chamber of horrors," groaned Poet FitzGerald, "[in which my wife looks] like Lucretia Borgia." FitzGerald found "a sort of consolation" in "some curious Infidel and Epicurean Tetrastichs by a Persian of the Eleventh Century-as Savage against Destiny ... as Manfred-but mostly of Epicurean Pathos of this kind -'Drink-for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this Garden and find us not.'" After a few moons, his marriage collapsed. Two years later the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* appeared...