Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silly prudery when I voice my feelings here," the letter concluded. "It is as if the flower of the youthful mind and sentiment were being killed off by . . . sledgehammer blows. . . . Girls are told they must marry as early as possible. . . . They are also told that every fourth man is diseased...
...from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days in a row and the U. S. sports public was pestered with the details...
Chairman Taylor's fourth major policy is at first blush paradoxical, involving both centralization and decentralization. Carnegie and Illinois Steels will be united under the control of a new organization, headed by Benjamin F. Fairless, a school-master-turned-steelmaster and now executive vice president of Steel Corp.'s second biggest competitor, Republic Steel. Steelmaster Fairless, however, will make his headquarters not in Manhattan but in Pittsburgh and will probably rule the most autonomous province in Steel's sprawling empire...
Richard H. Sullivan, age 17, of 624 Fourth street, Marietta, O. He attended Marietta High School. He is the son of Henry L. Sullivan, Superintendent of Schools in Marietta. He was tied for first place in scholarship ranking in his class and won first place in his county this spring in the general scholarship test for high school seniors. He was an officer of the student council and president of his class for one year. He was editor-in-chief of the school annual, was a leader in dramatics and debating, and was an officer of several student clubs. This...
...entire collection was bought by Lord Duveen for $3,000,000, brought to the U. S. Lord Duveen quickly wrote off a third of his investment by selling the four Duccios for $1,000,000, two to John D. Rockefeller Jr., one to the Frick Collection, and the fourth to Mr. Mackay who sold it to Mr. Kress for exactly what he paid for it less the Duveen commission. For the same panel six centuries ago the City of Siena paid Artist Duccio two and a half gold florins (about $5.75) in addition to the cost of his pigments...