Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened up his copy of "Tilly in Turkey-land", as he did every year at this time, and started to read the nineteen hundred and thirty-ninth chapter...
...with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since 1909 (gross...
...last week 46 had been placed in U. S. graduate and professional schools, ten others had jobs. Nineteen, with permission from their parents and the U. S. State Department, kept their Rhodes scholarships, stayed on at Oxford. There they cut more lectures than ever, carried stretchers and sandbagged buildings, saw dons doff their black robes for titles such as "staff member of the Ministry of Economic Warfare." Two scholars, H. K. Smith and J. F. Golay, soon went up to London to take temporary jobs with the United Press...
History. Everybody thought the Germans were fast, but Russians found them particularly impressive. Nineteen years ago last August Russians, too, were knocking at the gates of Warsaw. In the spring of that year Pilsudski had invaded the Russian Ukraine, been driven back so far that on August 12 Marshal Tukachevsky, following a plan worked out by a Tsarist general in 1831, circled Warsaw to the North; SimeonBudenny,with the Red Cavalry, had taken Lwow; a third force was ready to encircle Warsaw from the South; Dzerzhinsky, Polish-born nobleman, ruthless organizer of the Cheka, waited outside Warsaw to spring...
Heading the list of line prospects and appearing on paper as the outstanding lineman on the squad is Bob Fisher, a nineteen year old Andover graduate whose father coached Harvard from 1919 to 1925. Fisher is a tackle, tipping the scales at 193 pounds...