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Word: fourth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Shanghai and business, Ambassador Johnson went to Peking and pleasure. In Peking with the Ambassador's wife are her son, Nelson Beck ("Nubby"), 6, and daughter, Betty Jane, for whose fourth birthday this week he made the trip north. He had not seen his family since last May (in the U. S., after a trip out of China via the then brand new 2,100-mile Burma road, over which the Ambassador was the first civilian to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...that she was being attacked, was heard from no more. Probable assailant: the German raider Admiral Scheer. Germany claimed a grand total of 194 merchantmen (68 neutral, for which she was "sorry") with a tonnage of 735,768-nearly 250,000 tons a month, which would be about one-fourth the highest monthly figure reached in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Quiet But Fierce | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...British people is one of patient determination to win the war. Underlying it are many other contributing moods held by varying classes and factions. The free people of the United Kingdom last week found significant spokesmen to express three of their varying moods as World War II entered its fourth month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What They Deserve! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...fourth quarter the Redskins got going, scored a touchdown and kicked the extra point. Then, with only 45 seconds to play, the score 9-to-7 and the ball on the 16-yard line, Coach Ray Flaherty, realizing that a field goal was the Redskins' only hope, sent in Beau Russell to placekick. The ball sailed between the uprights-so most of the spectators thought. But Referee Bill Halloran thought otherwise, ruled the kick wide. To the tune of the worst booing ever heard in the historic old Polo Grounds, the Giants marched off with the Eastern championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Dunster team of Eliot I. Snider '41 and Richard M. Haber '41 successfully took the negative side of the subject: "Resolved, That Harvard Should Establish Athletic Scholarships." Last night's favorable decision was the fourth for this undefeated team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Debaters Victorious Again | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

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