Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of minor sports in which class teams do not exist is doubtless in proportion to contemporary interest in those sports. Nevertheless failure to establish such teams is a direct contradiction to any policy of general physical training. Tournaments in wrestling, boxing, squash, create at best a rather unenduring interest in those sports, for the competitor who ventures into action on the spur of the moment is more than likely to give up his venture after a disastrous encounter in the first round. These include the men that, with the incentive of a numeral and the distinction of a place...
...have before me the portraits of all the men who have been President of the United States. They number 29. I have counted them carefully. Yet on at least five occasions since election TIME has gravely and informatively told its readers that Herbert Hoover will be the 31st President. I add his portrait to the row-it only makes 30. Kindly explain...
...Cleveland, between whose two terms came Benjamin Harrison's, was both the 22nd and 24th President. Should Calvin Coolidge be reelected in 1932 he would be President Number 32 as well as Number...
...opinion was frequently heard last week that had His Majesty been stricken even five years ago by so virulent an infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly and intermittently...
Because the number of banana eaters in the U. S. is practically a daily constant, and because from the banana comes such useful commodities as banana oil, the United Fruit Co. (Manhattan) has developed many square miles of banana plantations near Santa Marta. Here the company owns a railroad (28 miles), has its own telegraph and radio stations, maintains a hospital, employs 200 U. S. citizens, about 19,000 native workers...