Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred to his age by taking the escalator to ponder the virtues of fast footwork...
...Wisconsin (7-2)-battered for a fourth-period touchdown to beat scrappy Minnesota, 11-7, win the Big Ten title and a trip to the Rose Bowl...
Hurrying into his fourth-floor office every morning around 8:30 after a bracing 4½-mile walk from home, burly, vigorous Bill Knowland looked just the man to take charge. But as the months passed, there was no improvement. Reserved to the point of coldness. Bill Knowland rarely mixed with his staff. Son Joe occupied himself with writing memos to copy boys (No talking to rewritemen) and drawing up rules for staffers (Don't throw cigarette butts on the floor). Overtime was cut to the bone, and staffers who quit were not replaced...
POSTAL RATE HIKE on parcel post packages and other fourth class mail will go into effect...
...into the bridge, drenching her skipper, Commander George F. Davis, with gasoline. For a moment, he burned like a torch. Sailors near him smothered the flames and he exhorted officers and men to save the ship. While still on his feet, he saw Walke's guns destroy a fourth kamikaze. Finally he consented to be carried below; a few hours later he died...