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Word: fourths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to go with them to blind John Taylor's tiny Congregational Church. Just before his sermon Mr. Taylor said: "I take this opportunity of wishing President Coolidge a very happy birthday and many, many happy returns." As everyone knew, Calvin Coolidge would be 56 on the Fourth of July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Office Hours | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...front cover} As intrinsic to the Fourth of July as the red crackers sputtering under tin cans in millions of back yards or the blazing sun which, always a little sultry as if stained with gunpowder, wheels over the continent, is the tradition which dictates that the baseball teams which lead the two major leagues on that day will finish in the same order when the season is over. Generally the tradition works out. Last year it was the Pirates in the National League, the Yankees in the American. This year it is the Cardinals and the Yankees. Critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Baptists to the number of 7,000 drew together in Toronto for the Fourth Quinquennial Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, a purely advisory organization. They discussed industrial problems, militarism, the spiritual rebuilding of China, missionary work, the unfoldings of the Baptist faith in other countries. No serious disputes or differences marked the genial and progressive activities of the congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conversations | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Serious-minded visitors, to whom aviation is first an industry, then a fine art, concentrated on the start of the fourth National Air Tour. Twenty-five planes, ranging from two-seater "flivvers" to trimotored, all-metal monoplanes, carefully handicapped for speed and weight, took off from Ford Airport at one-minute intervals, ready to fly 6,300 miles swiftly, safely, reliably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Industry, Sport | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...design of "A Supreme Court Building of a Republic." More extraordinary than the prowess of the winner was that of the Yale University School of Fine Arts which supplied three prize winners in the competition-A. J. Kelsey, who was second, A. E. Euston, third, D. A. White, fourth-and the remaining contestant, F. W. Dunn, who received a medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yale Architects | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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