Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hallucinations and Religions. More women suffer from religious hallucinations than do men, at least in the Chicago experiences of George Washington University's I. C. Sherman. As many institutionalized Jews as Roman Catholics have paranoidal trends. Protestants suffer less so. Every third Protestant, every fourth Catholic, every seventh Jew has hallucinations. Half of the Protestants, one-fourth of the Catholics, none of the Jews had religions hallucinations...
...industrial tycoons, pledged ?5000 ($25,000) to feed and succor the hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry poured in at such a rate that officials of the Palestine Emergency...
...Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James and Oris Paxton). railroaders; the seven Brothers Fisher (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P., Edward P., William A., Albert J., Howard), whose bodies are famous; the three Brothers Warner (Harry, Albert, Jack?the fourth. Sam, died in 1927), cinemen...
Eventually the "Wee Frees," canny and circumspect, passed a purely general resolution. "The Fourth Commandment," they indisputably proclaimed, "is binding with out exception. . . ." Conscience-stricken citizens thumbed their Bibles, read...
...Fourth Day. The sun rose at 2 a. m. The Graf Zeppelin kept north of war-troubled Manchuria, reached the sea, cut south down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...