Word: fortieth
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...weather will determine whether we travel 4,000 miles or 6,000 miles. . . . Naturally I would like best to choose the northern route which is the shortest. . . . From the moment we reach the European coast we will need from 45 to 80 hours for the actual crossing. . . . After the fortieth hour don't worry if you do not hear from us for a long time...
Moore has been for two years an applicant for the Boston police force, and his name now stands fortieth on the list. The lieutenant in charge of the First Precinct Station House in Cambridge told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that the rescue would probably assure Moore of an appointment...
Although this is the forty-seventh encounter between the Blue and Crimson, it is safe to say that in the Boston papers it will be anywhere from the fortieth to the fifty-fifth...
...second, is as near to nothing at all as most people can imagine. But last week, Dr. D. D. Knowles, 28-year old research engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated before unbelieving eyes in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, a device that runs on one-fortieth of one fly-power?in electrical parlance: one-billionth of a watt...
...explained Dr. Mayo, "an island continent, in area slightly larger than the United States. It lies between the tenth and fortieth parallels of latitude, south of the equator: Tasmania; the sixth state, is an island south of forty. The whole continent is rather warmer than the United States, approximately one-third of the northern part within the tropics. The climate may be compared with that of California; sunny weather predominates and except in Tasmania and the mountains snow is practically unknown...