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Word: fourths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finished the Henley distance in seven minutes and 19 seconds, defeating by four lengths the second eight, which had started the race with a two length handicap. Coach C. S. Heard '25 intends to change the men in the second boat after the race between the third and fourth crews this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN HARVARD CREWS HOLD TRIALS IN BASIN | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

...best known of Baumes Laws states among its provisions that any criminal who is convicted for a fourth time of felony is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment. Serious criticism has recently been directed at this act because it is felt that injustice is often inflicted. This law was passed in New York in 1926 and has since been adopted by several other States. It has been a subject for much discussion among the foremost lawyers of the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTHWESTERN TO MEET UNIVERSITY DEBATERS TONIGHT | 4/26/1928 | See Source »

...acquisition of 49 of his home State's 61 delegates by Candidate Lowden. Other victories in the Midwest having brought the Lowden delegates to a total of 183, Clarence F. Buck, the Lowden impresario, announced that Mr. Lowden would be nominated at Kansas City on the fourth ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: G. O. P. | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...great deal to say in defense of her position was made clear, last week, when Foreign Minister Briand announced that he too will shortly submit a tentative multilateral treaty text to the Powers concerned. Should the fashion for drafting and bandying such texts spread to a third power, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, the ensuing negotiations may well become a diplomatic cross word puzzle, titanic and inextricable. In an effort to scotch such confusion, Secretary Kellogg said in all his notes, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pacts of Peace | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...medicine which will provide the remedy, and says so in a manner that is comparable only to a combination of Mencken and Oswald Garrison Villard. One does not agree with Daudet any more than one agree with these two gentlemen. But the Frenchman is no more ridiculous than your Fourth of July orators, and he is a good deal rarer and therefore more entertaining...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: French, English, American Essays | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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