Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Gardiner, veteran of a year ago, is the strongest contender for number five but John Roadway has been rowing there for the last few days because Gardiner has been out with a cold. The other fiver is strong Tom Talbot, who is, however, rather badly out of form. Hard work may bring him more into the running...
Sponsored by a large number of youth organizations and under the immediate direction of the American Youth Congress, a group of students will journey to Washington this week-end to visit their congressman and urge the passage of several liberal measures...
...Farley and the boys are not content with profaning the name of America's first gentleman and alienating the country's philatelists against he who claims to be the number one stamp collector as well as the first man of America. In a paltry appeal to the women's vote, they have chosen to make Martha Washington half again as valuable as her worthy spouse. Thomas Jefferson, whose name rests on his plan for sending Black Fact Indians to Harvard, is given the coveted three-cent berth. And with grim irony Benjamin Franklin, who enjoyed the title of Post master...
...booksellers in each of ten cities every week, the Times merely lists favorites of the moment in each part of the country. The Herald Tribune prints a weekly chart, compiled from reports of some 70 bookstores. Appearance and position of a book on this chart is determined by the number of bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin's The Citadel was listed by 65 bookstores, had first place on the list, while Mari Sandoz' novel of pioneer Nebraska...
Captain von Stade was the evening's leading scorer by a large margin, turning in a total of seven goals. Ben Forbes and Gaylord Dillingham, at number 1 and 2 positions respectively, divided the rest of the Crimson goals between them, scoring six apiece...