Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pedal broke through the wooden surface of the track. Echevaria retired with severe bruises, and Testa paired with Peden to leave nine teams in the race. In the last hour, with three teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling at the end of the fourth sprint, gamely remounted in seven minutes. Then he and Kilian put on the pressure. Throwing aside all caution, they zipped around the saucer, matching every effort of Letourner and his new partner Brocardo. Their daring won them 14 of the 27 final sprints, added 72 points to their total every time...
Most appealing to moderns is the great King Oguola, traditionally fourth king of the Bini. Since his people were rich and peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...
...marine picture called Tropic Sea (TIME, Dec. 17). Still another Waugh seascape entitled Post Meridian took the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting at last spring's National Academy. In Chicago last month bewildered Mrs. Frank Logan, wife of the Art Institute's honorary president, picked a fourth Waugh seascape as the sort of picture she really liked, in contrast to the sarcastic canvas that had been awarded her $500 prize (TIME, Nov. 18). Artist Waugh, spry at 74, produces about 75 canvases a year. The Grand Central Art Galleries, his Manhattan agents, never keep a Waugh canvas...
...worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head in a bucket of icy water. There he entertains many a visitor...
...This one fourth will be used for the construction of a headquarters for the School, to be known as the "Littauer Center of Public Administration." At least three quarters of the fund will be reserved for endowment, in accordance with the recently announced policy of the University, to ensure good quality of the personnel, both teachers and students...