Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balloting being by proportional representations,* much time was spent in counting the votes and transferring them to second, third and fourth choices...
History alone can determine the full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
Whist and for about ten years reigned unchallenged. It became known as Bridge. Then one afternoon three Englishmen (according to reliable tradition) could not find a fourth to complete their table. They evolved a game based on exposing one of the four hands and bidding for it. The man who estimated he could make the most tricks with his hand playing in combination with the exposed hand took the bid. There were, of course, heavy penalties, for overestimation. From this crude start grew Auction Bridge, which is still the most widely played of all. In its present form all four...
...light blue grandstands. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. smote the first goal and the U. S. team led the British team. Hitchcock Jr. smote the second goal; and the third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee. struck by a fiercely-driven ball, was paralyzed. He rose; walked around; remounted; finished the game...
...last week acquired by George Godfrey, 228½-pound blackamoor actor* of Leiperville, Pa. Mr. Godfrey disposed of Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn. He had been knocked flat in the third for the count of nine; was tired, bloody, outclassed...