Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement was the eve of the fourth anniversary of his taking the oath of presidential office...
...Radio Corp. of America announced that within a month it would place a "beam" radio service insuring high speed and privacy at the disposal of U. S. businessmen desirous of communicating with London. The announcement came as the fourth in a series of transatlantic communication improvements within a year. Last summer the Western Union Co. completed laying the second of two loaded or "permalloy" cables across the Atlantic capable of carrying 2,500' code letters per minute each (TIME, July...
...slope. Down fell the elephant dead, and rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good story, the ranger hurried to the spot. There he found, not one dead elephant, but four dead elephants. Explanation: the shot elephant had killed two others on its downhill roll. The fourth had chosen that spot to die of bullets, evidently a month before...
...will feed the cats on the rats, and in turn will feed the rats on the stripped carcasses of the cats, thus giving each rat one-fourth...
...three minutes a motion picture camera played against a laboratory screen at Rochester, N. Y., last week. In the picture were what seemed to be animated sausages approximately one-fourth of an inch long and one-twelth of an inch in diameter. They unfolded, grew, multiplied. They were bacteria magnified 2,000 times and photographed in motion by an ordinary moving picture camera ingeniously fitted to an ordinary microscope...