Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is hardly an active member of the Fourth Estate who has missed stubbing his toe or bruising his knuckles upon ethical bugaboos of medicine and science. The reporter is most likely to be damned if he does report and doubly damned if he doesn't. This is a rather sad and unreasonable state of affairs. As a newspaper reporter, and more recently as a magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar...
Vernon King, 13, of Salt Lake City recently titillated classicists by grouping some irregular Latin verbs with "u" stems into a ''fifth conjugation," making a plausible case for his "discovery." More versatile than most prodigies, he has also worked out an original demonstration of the fourth dimension (time). Bedridden since he fractured a knee playing hide-&-seek, he gets most fun out of chemical experiments...
Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, daughter of a Manhattan Negro writer, startles visitors by repeatedly spelling pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoniosis,* informing them that it is the longest word in the English language. A forceful pianist, a determined rhymester, an avid reader of fourth grade books, Philippa has the added distinction of never having eaten cooked food...
Softly, Taitou, Leader of the Ethiopian women on that bloody March 1, 1896, was the Empress Taitou, fourth wife of Menelik II. A more polite version of her predecessor's part in the battle of Adowa was given last fortnight by plump Empress Menen, only wife of Power-of-Trinity, as she nibbled pink iced cake and drank jasmine tea at Addis Ababa...
...from his stool in the corner, walked across the ring. The Negro knocked him down, first with a solid left hook to the chin for a referee's count of two, then, when Levinsky got up, three times more, for counts of five, five and four. After the fourth knockdown, instead of falling on the floor, Levinsky collapsed on the ropes in the corner of the ring. Dazed and beaten, he muttered something which the referee mercifully took for a superfluous confession that the fight was over...