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Word: fourths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought forth eight vetoes. The rejected measures included: the $3,500,000 bill for roadbuilding in public domains (Indian reservations, national parks, etc.); a 10% pay-raise, totaling some $6,000,000 per annum, for night-working city and railroad postal employes; a bill of extra allowances to fourth-class postmasters for rent, fuel, light, equipment; a bill to promote Captain George R. Armstrong, U. S. A. (retired) to lieutenant-colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Signed & Consigned | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...intrepid Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is inching its way across the northern sands. Geologists, paleontologists, topographers, zoologists, archeologists, accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gobi | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Again, Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 49 and Mantis James Van Sweringen, 47, Cleveland brothers, are frustrated in their plans for a fourth eastern railroad system. The Interstate Commerce Commission again last week rejected their revised plan for joining the Great Lakes to Atlantic ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Again, Frustration | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

There were several Americans left now and one more Frenchwoman-Mlle. Manette Le Blan. Miss Collett got to the fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hunstanton | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...seating for crew M. the Fourth University 150-pound crew follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACES OPEN HARVARD INVITATION REGATTA | 5/22/1928 | See Source »

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