Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain a large measure of success in imparting them to their charges. I should even venture to say that a fourth college crew here fares rather better under the full time guidance of a veteran third year oarsman than a fourth hundred and fifty pound crew does at Harvard under the occasional supervision of a much overburdened professional coach...
Hard to hold, apparently, iz the seat of the junior U. S. Senator from Ohio, once filled by Warren Gamaliel Harding. In three years Death & Defeat have cut down its last three occupants. Last week a fourth man stepped up to try his luck...
...fetid cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...
...Stateville, with circular, sanitary, well-lighted cell blocks. Major Henry C. Hill is warden of both. He keeps his two most famed prisoners, boy-murderers Leopold and Loeb. in old Joliet in cramped, dark cells, with buckets for sewage disposal. He allows them one day's yearly recreation, the Fourth of July, unless it rains...
...capitol building, last work of the late great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, is surely a piece of the world's greatest modern architecture. 2) Its symphony orchestra exists unaided by great-hearted guarantors and, miraculously, without deficit. Last week the Lincoln players gave the first concert of their fourth season. Again Rudolph Seidl, onetime oboist in the Minneapolis Symphony, conducted his 40 colleagues, all of whom receive union wages. Again there will be given four Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the junior division of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce...