Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More the President would not say. It happened to be the fourth anniversary of the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding of Marion, Ohio, 29th U. S. President. And at 2 A. M. Aug. 3, four years ago, aged John C. Coolidge, slipperless, came down the stairs of his cottage at Plymouth Notch, Vermont, to swear in his son, Calvin, as 30th U. S. President. When President Coolidge's present term expires, he will have held supreme office for five years, seven months...
...cannot be closed in time for the next spring rise of the Mississippi. With much of the land below the level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth of the levee repair work (cost estimated at $50,000,000) paid for by the people of the flood region, but how these people are going to pull $12,500,000 out of empty pockets remains to be seen...
...check (which the Times reproduced across four columns of its front page) signed by Mr. Stephenson, made out to and endorsed by Governor Jackson, for the amount of $2,500. It was accompanied by a notation, written by Mr. Stephenson, reading: "This check is the first one-fourth of the $10,000 given Jackson personally for Primary expenses...
Last week a white marble staircase which spirals from the first to the fourth floor of Elbert Henry Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan went begging for a buyer at $1. Twelve years ago the staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided...
...shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer and said: "Paolino Uzcudun, champion du monde!" Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything...