Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With these 182 votes, plus Ohio's 52, plus at least 100 miscellaneous pledges, Tortoise Taft appeared to have about 300 ballots-nearly a solid third of the G. O. P.'s 1,000 convention votes. Mr. Dewey had only New York's 92-and a fourth of these were still uncertain...
Officially they did not cross Germany, on their way to bomb the Latvian air bases of Germany's pledged partner Russia. But if the Savoia-Marchettis did not cross German territory, then they arrived in Finland through some fourth dimension, for the British Intelligence Service pointed out that they did not take and were not given permission to take the roundabout route across the German-Allied western battle zone...
Progress. "The Chinese," White concluded, "have advanced during the war from a fourth rate Army to a second rate Army. This is progress. Before the war the Chinese Armies were notorious for the fact that they could run faster and retreat in worse disorder than any known national group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows...
Bussc has started both games the Tigers have played thus far, with Bob Stewart and Dave Lloyd up front and Dan Carmichael and Captain Ed Green at guard. All of his mates are veterans from the team that tied for fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standing after coming along fast...
...stirring rally in the fourth quarter provided the few Harvard supporters in the stands with a thrill, but it was throttled by a smoothly functioning Brown five before the invaders came within striking distance of tying up the score...