Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under graduate handwriting is tiresome, but the professor read young Farrell's stuff with great interest. To the black haired Irish kid from Chicago's Blue Island Avenue, he gave encouragement, out of which ultimately came four grim, first-class novels of life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years is obviously one he had no hand in. He knew stinging poverty, quit college four years ago, worked as a gas station and cigar store attendant, attended night classes at DePauw...
While 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor, father of 43 children, attended to such chores of state as having audience of King Edward VIII, his young fourth wife busied herself in London last week buying presents for wives...
...touchdowns climaxing long marches put Princeton ahead 16-to-0 in the first 20 minutes. Yale came back with one touchdown just before the half. After intermission, Yale ran wild for two more touchdowns, the last on a long pass by Frank to Captain Larry Kelley. Early in the fourth period, Princeton got to Yale's 3-yd. line. Yale held, and its star punter, Dave Colwell, who was operated on for appendicitis a month ago, hurried into the game to kick out. He succeeded but a minute later was knocked unconscious tackling Kaufman on the Yale...
...lately been held in San Juan, P. R., by a crew strike (TIME, Nov. 9). One night last week it finally cleared the harbor. Few days later, into the office of U. S. District Attorney A. Cecil Snyder marched four ragged youths, three of them Puerto Ricans, the fourth a 16-year-old from Washington, D. C. named Rothwell Burke. Filing complaints against the West Mahwah, young Burke and two of his companions signed affidavits to the following story...
...Hiram Edward Manville's 266-ft. Hi-Esmaro was built by Bath Iron Works. So was Hugh Joseph Chisholm's 244-ft. Aras and Eldridge Reeves Johnson's 279-ft. Caroline. Biggest yacht contract Bath Iron Works ever got was for J. P. Morgan's fourth Corsair, which was launched in the dark days of 1930 amid a fusillade of anonymous letters threatening to dynamite the 343-ft. ship before she left the ways...