Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second gate and was pounced on again, once more whispered, was once more identified and got away. Easing through the third gate the little man was almost strangled by a pantherlike sentry, but again a sergeant and more whispers worked their magic and on he sneaked. At the fourth and final gate he jabbered so plausibly in shrill tones that he was freely passed by the final sentry. Flying into a towering rage at this, the little man threw off his disguise and as Emperor of Ethiopia tongue-lashed the trembling fourth sentry, ordered him into chains. On the three...
...Tokyo last week but Japanese began to scan their credentials. The yellow Emperor's subjects continued to lavish official hospitality on the chocolate Emperor's envoy Daba Birrou (TIME, Sept. 30), but after elaborately banqueting a certain Mr. Thomas they found out that he fits only the fourth part of his description of himself: "I am an Ethiopian, a graduate of Cambridge University, a millionaire and desirous of taking a Japanese bride...
...fortnight but long before that their victory had been an overwhelming probability. The Cleveland Indians, favorites in the spring, never got started and a change in managers did not help. The Chicago White Sox, leaders in May, slipped in June. The New York Yankees, who were ahead on the Fourth of July, collapsed sooner and even more feebly than the Giants. In the second division until June, the Tigers finally got going with the hot weather, coasted through the last two weeks of the season, winning less than half of their last 15 games...
That play, with the score tied, 2-to-2 in the fourth inning at Sportsman's Park St. Louis, one day last week, was the decisive moment of the 1935 major-league baseball season. It won the game (three runs made later were superfluous) for the Chicago Cubs. The game decided the National League pennant race...
...Cubs. In the polls of expert opinion conducted every year before the baseball season starts, the Cubs last spring were generally picked to finish fourth A team composed of young if not untried players they appeared to lack the batting strength of the world champion Cardinals, the pitching of the New York Giants. While the Giants were getting off to a nine-game lead by the Fourth of July the Cubs lived down to their rating in fourth place. In August the Giants went into a sudden decline for the second year in a row and the Cardinals caught...