Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government finished its case against Messrs. Miller and Daugherty as the fourth week of the trial opened. It remained for attorneys William Rand and Max D. Steuer to present their defense; for the jury to decide on conspiracy or no conspiracy...
...Should he ascend the throne he will reign as Leopold III, and will be Belgium's fourth king. Leopold I (1790-1865) was of course Queen Victoria's "wise uncle Leopold." Leopold II (1835-1909) was an uncle of the present king, Albert I, and although notoriously dissolute, and the ruthless exploiter of the Congo, spent much of his ill-gotten wealth on public buildings and improvements in Belgium...
...thousand German scientists tumbled into smoky Dösseldorf last week for the 89th congress of the Society of German Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first class coaches or in clattering fourth class vans, whether with leather portmanteaux or wicker lunch cases, whether smartly frocked or draggedly trousered-the ten thousand meant this congress to be the renaissance of a German culture, without the patina of which, in the years before the War, no student anywhere felt himself raised above shambling mediocrity...
Last week came a fourth hind, Beau, "The Man's Magazine, Devoted to the Comforts and Luxuries of Living"-35?the monthly copy, the year...
...been said that they could have had a fourth player had they deigned to play with their subalterns. *Other versions of Bridge's ancient "green suit" story substitute for Mr. Lena's Parsee a traveling salesman, Pat and Mike, a pink elephant...