Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holmesdale, great-grandson of famed Lord Jeffrey Amherst, whose name Amherst College bears: "For some months I have assisted Alexander Woollcott by writing dramatic reviews for the New York World, modestly signed with two of my many initials-J. H. Last week I received word that my father, the Fourth Earl of Amherst, aged 71, was desperately ill. Forthwith, I sailed for England hoping to see him alive. Three days out, I heard that he had died suddenly; found myself Fifth Earl of Amherst...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, president, American Museum of Natural History: "Last week my wife and our curator's wife, Mrs. Barnum Brown, and Mrs. Childs Frick, poured tea for a company of museum and aquarium directors, Manhattan officials and society folk in a newly finished hall on the fourth floor of the American Museum. Over and around us towered the colossal skeletons of 47-foot tyrannosaunis rex, of 66-foot brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard,' of leptoceratops, palaeoscius and many another dinosaur, of which the American Museum has the world's finest collection. The Hall of Dinosaurs which...
...What is the fourth largest city...
...present there are only three speakers but a fourth will be announced later. H. C. Bartlett '28 and R. A. Magowan '27 will take the negative and J. C. Furnas '27 will uphold the affirmative side of the question...
...agent for one of the oldest classes, wrote in his letter: "Let us therefore try to double 18--'s percentage and get fourth place on the list. Do not hesitate to send a dollar or two, unless you really want to give more. Of course this, our---anniversary year with its financial burdens, is not favorable for a great showing, but let us do our best...