Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George...
From the Government benches across the House came an immediate answer? decisive, sudden bullets flew six times from the blue-steel barrel of an automatic pistol coolly aimed by Deputy Punica Ratchitch. Each bullet found a man and brought him down, wounding four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch...
...Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1918). At the beginning of 1929 the fields of these were revised and their organizations reduced to two?the Rockefeller Foundation (international) and the General Education Board (exclusively U. S.). Their combined capital endowment last week was more than $203,000,000. Since their foundings the four boards have spent a quarter of a billion dollars of their capital, besides their vast income from investments. The Rockefeller Foundation itself has spent $144,189,000 during its 16 years...
...from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert Andrews Millikun, published in Science, setting forth, "the present status of Evolution" in four points...
...tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti...