Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain James A. Mollison, Britain's No. 1 flyer, off on his fourth transatlantic flight. To explain his costume he smirked: "I don't want to lose any time getting to a party once I land at Croydon." Of late, Captain Mollison and his famed flying wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, have been noted more for the frequency of their parties than for the brilliance of their flying. Fortnight ago Amy made a bad landing in Kent, buried her plane's nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took the occasion...
Other notable steel earnings: Bethlehem Steel made $4,500,000 in the third quarter, best figure for that period since 1929. Said President Eugene Gifford Grace: "I should expect to see Bethlehem's fourth quarter at least as good as the third quarter...
According to a special bulletin received late last night, 20 students of Cambridge University, England, were apprehended by the police of that ancient town for the innocent amusement of shooting off firecrackers on Guy Fawkes' day, which is the counterpart of our Fourth of July celebration...
When the clock struck midnight on November fourth, America had spoken and Roosevelt had been swept back into office by the mightiest tidal wave of popular opinion ever expressed in the United States. That he was the man of the hour was undeniable and no one tried to gainsay it. Instead, all: Republicans and Democrats, Socialists and radicals, the mighty, friend and foe alike, joined in tribute to the man and his magnificent victory. It was his minute, his moment of glory...
Three all-important events in Harvard's history will be fittingly observed by a service in the Memorial Church at 8:45 o'clock Saturday morning. These are the end of the Tercentenary year, the beginning of Harvard's fourth century, and John Harvard's 329th birthday...