Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regatta (named after one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams); defeating Navy and Pennsylvania over 1¾ miles on the Severn; before a crowd of spectators that included Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt; at Annapolis, Md. Because it was Harvard's fourth short-distance victory in four weeks, having previously out-rowed Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell and M. I. T., experts rated Harvard the Eastern sprint champion, likely to beat Yale at four miles next month...
...Princeton's track team, undefeated in dual meets this year; the fourth annual Heptagonal meet (with Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn), climax of the Ivy League season; scoring in 13 of the 15 events and winning four (half-mile, 440-yd. relay, broad jump, hammer throw) ; for a total of 59¼ points; before a crowd of 10,000; at Princeton, N. J. Cornell was second, Columbia third...
Born. To John Davison Rockefeller Jr., three grandchildren; to Mr. & Mrs. John D. 3rd, their third, a daughter; to Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, their fourth and fifth, a twin son and daughter; all in Manhattan...
...Navy has three big oil reserves, one at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, two more in California, in Kern County and in the Buena Vista hills. The two California fields are checkerboarded with Standard Oil holdings. The resolution setting up the fourth big reserve provides that the Attorney General may take action against companies now operating in the tidelands. That, of course, will take time. Standard and its competitors last week continued to take out offshore oil. Frequently in the past year they have got as much as 15,000 barrels...
...Case of Sergeant Grischa. It is an old-fashioned moral study, and Author Zweig is almost the only War novelist for whom armed conflict is only a part of the war between good & evil that rages as fiercely when the guns are silent. Last week Author Zweig published the fourth volume of Grischa's moral story. A long and involved book called The Crowning of a King, it deals, superficially, with the intrigues of the German general staff over the selection of a king for Lithuania. But in a deeper sense it is a dramatization of the moral conflicts...