Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors in the U. S. to send a representative (each...
...People get most of their news from sources other than newspapers, one-fourth of them from the radio. The non-newspaper readers are mostly among the poor...
...bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
When the McKesson & Robbins scandal broke last December, jittery stockholders feared that their drug firm might be busted. Approximately one fourth of its $86,556,270 assets was just figures written on the books to keep the company looking prosperous while imposing Impostor F. Donald Coster milked it. Trustee William J. Wardall, appointed by the U. S. District Court to straighten out the mess, last week mailed to stockholders his first full report of the firm's financial condition...
...faced young man coming down the street-the answer to a maiden's seance. Lula charged, threw her arms around his waist. "I'm Dik-Dik," she said. The stranger, who hailed from South Brooklyn, had a "heart as clean as a baby's," was the fourth deputy assistant editor in a publishing firm. He told her his name was Mole, agreed to come to her house to live. Thus begins April Was When It Began, a complicated romance in which Dik-Dik tends a poor author's baby, breaks up Mole's engagement...