Word: fortieth
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...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...
Harvard will receive one-fortieth of the residue of the estate after the death of Mrs. Harkness. Yale, Columbia, and other educational institutions will also benefit by the will...
...that man's brain ranged from one-fiftieth to one eightieth of his total weight, depending largely on whether weight, depending largely on whether he is of the thin, Group I variety or the plump dropped Freshmen type. The Dodatmors, on the other hand, have brains a long one-fortieth of their weight...