Word: fourth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Placing first among the Eastern colleges, Dartmouth only stood fourth in the nation. Tunis put Louisiana State second, Ohio State third, Dartmouth fourth, and Columbia fifth. After Harvard came Stanford, North Carolina, Indiana, and Minnesota...
...staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang's Own"-the famed 88th Division of Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Japanese troops, advancing at sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British position in Shanghai's International Settlement. As Japanese light artillery poured converging fire into the warehouse, it flamed in world headlines as "The Chinese Alamo...
Divorced. Thomas Franklin Manville Jr., egregious asbestos heir; by Marcelle Edwards Manville, his fourth wife; in Reno. Reported settlement: $200,000; her original demand...
...reducing fixed charges some $30,000,000 annually and preparing the company to run the gauntlet of Depression. Second point on Myron Taylor's program was a vast modernization and expansion of plant, now nearing completion. Third point was the merger of two subsidiaries, Carnegie and Illinois Steels. Fourth was the revitalizing of Big Steel with young executive blood...
...fourth period the breaks that they had evidently been waiting for all afternoon, the breaks that they obviously needed before they could win finally came--a pair of them. The first, Foley's fumble, looked like the ball game, but two passes, and it was brought out to the 20-yard line...