Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth Christmas that the Hoovers had spent at sea. The ship's carpenter had built a fireplace with red electric lights for coals. Capt. Train presented Mr. Hoover with a pair of binoculars, Mrs. Hoover with a blue and white Brazilian shawl. There was a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
...Rumania into a democracy of authentic, Anglo-Saxon stamp, retaining constitutional monarchy. Second, to accord to Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate and lenient restrictions...
...didn't he do it? I do not know, but . . . after the fourth of March he might not have the chance...
...second phase," the report continued, "was one of increasing toxaemia [poisoning of the blood] with a dusky appearance, dry, cracked tongue, periods of delirium and exhaustion-in short, a clinical picture resembling that of a case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...
...year of Our Lord's birth is generally calculated, by modern Biblical criticism, as the fourth preceding the Christian era. Reforms in the calendar made by Gregory XIII, when ten days were dropped from the year, were not accepted by certain branches of the Eastern church, which therefore celebrate Christmas approximately at the time of the Western Epiphany...