Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge celebrated the close of his fifth year in office with a short railroad trip. It is only about a three-hour journey from Cedar Island lodge to a place called Hibbing in the Minnesota hinterland. Thither the President journeyed in a special train provided by U. S. Steel Corp., a train that had been examined and guarded with utmost care for 48 hours before its great passenger went aboard. Steel Corporation guards were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within...
...John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. v. Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.-both young and brilliant players. Allison, making beautiful shots and then staggering blindly, had been within one point of victory. After that, he was in hopeless condition; Van Ryn took the 20th game of the fifth at love. Allison walked up to the net, told Van Ryn he was going to retire, went into the locker room, collapsed...
...Metre Run. Won by Douglas G. Lowe of Great Britain, 1 min., 4/5 sec. Seraphin Martin of France, holder of the world's record, finished second. Lloyd Hahn, U. S. hope, was fifth...
...Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Judge Edwin Yates Webb, in the case of the U. S. v. Isner, declared he had been a member of the Congress which passed the Volstead act, recalled well the debates on the subject, knew that it was the intention of Congress to define "non-intoxicating" at "non-intoxicating in fact...
French editors professed to be shocked, last week, that the U. S. had lavished on naval appropriations, since the armistice, five times as much as France. Citizens of the U. S. are vexed when they reflect that France has lavished enough to pay off one-fifth of her debt...