Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nineteen years later the flagon had been furbished up, called the America's Cup, put in competition for the second time. Jubilee Jim Fiske, arrayed in white & gold as the admiral of his Narragansett Line, watched the challenger?James Ashbury's Cambria?come in tenth in a field of 24. Nothing daunted, James Ashbury sailed to the U. S. the following year in the Livonia and lost four out of seven match races. Later came the Earl of Dunraven in 1893. He challenged and lost with Valkyrie II. Two years later he built Valkyrie III to race against C. Oliver...
...Ravinia is Louis Eckstein's chief active occupation.* Nineteen years ago he snatched it from a group of directors who wanted to turn it into an ordinary amusement park. Concerts had proved unprofitable but Eckstein was determined. The second year of his administration he engaged the Chicago Symphony for ten weeks. Excerpts from operas were included in the programs, became increasingly popular. Important members of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies were engaged. They liked to be invited to Ravinia. Last autumn Bori received a cable asking her to sing this spring at London's Covent Garden...
...names of 58 men who will usher at Commencement were announced last night by J. N. Trainer '31, Head Usher. Nineteen of the men are Sophomores and the other 39 are Juniors. At the same time Trainer announced that eight of this number have been selected to aid him as assistant Class Day head ushers...
...Enforcement-553,337 For Modification-598,252 For Repeal-848,751 Out of 40 States covered, thus far only two-Kansas and Tennessee-gave Enforcement a clear majority over the combined vote for Modification and Repeal, In Florida, Louisiana and Kentucky, Repeal votes exceeded those for Enforcement. Nineteen States gave a plurality to Repeal, 21 a plurality to Enforcement...
...Nineteen residents of Boston and Cambridge, more than half of whom are members of the faculty of Harvard University, are among the 400 or more scientists throughout the country who have been working for the last year on a science them for the Chicago World's Fair. The Fair, which is to be held in 1933, will commemorate a century of progress since the year 1933 when Chicago became a city...