Word: fortieth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houghton, who finished eighteenth, was the last Crimson man to count in the team scoring, but John Hopks, who placed twenty-third, and Tom McElligott, fortieth, kept the other teams from placing any higher in the scoring...
Catholicism's hold throughout the South is little stronger. One-fifth of the U.S. population lives in the area bounded by the Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers -but only one-fortieth of the U.S. Catholics. Here, in this virgin field for Catholic proselytizing, Catholicism is making its greatest percentage gains. Example: the diocese of Savannah-Atlanta in 1940 made proportionately 14 times as many converts as Boston and four times as many as Chicago-two great Catholic strongholds. Since 1937 the number of Catholics in the South has increased...
...ironic slogan went the rounds of London last week: "Join the Army and escape the war." Before the House of Commons Winston Churchill declared that, of 2,000 deaths in two weeks' raids, only one-fortieth were military casualties. Noncombatants were really getting it. One Army officer, surveying the ruins of an Oxford Street store, remarked: "Thank God I'm not a civilian...
This week Peking celebrated the fortieth anniversary of that gruesome outbreak. With intent no less barbaric because it was more subtle, the Japanese marked the occasion by going full-out for the skins of all the foreigners in China except themselves. Instead of using long-swords and rifles, the Japanese advanced on foreign citizens and interests with high-explosive accusations, brickbats of propaganda, bolts of protocol. The campaign was far less spectacular but far more important than the local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan...
Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, Ralph Harris Company is holding open house at its Massachusetts Avenue quarters this afternoon at 2 o'clock...