Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born March 8, 1841, thrice wounded in the Civil War, for a quarter-century one of the eight Associate Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time." Despite a cold which confined him to his home in Washington, he spent his birthday working on the cases assigned him by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. "I should die if I quit work," he is said to say at intervals...
...poets are apt to develop a weakness for epigrams. Sometimes they achieve their most beautiful thoughts in these short, effortless three or four lines. Thus Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...
...Harvard Teachers' Association will hold its thirty-seventh annual meeting on March 17 in Sanders Theatre, it was announced yesterday. The topic for discussion at this meeting will be "Student responsibility for student achievement...
...plays his floor shots with a delicate, excessive turn of the wrist that cuts the ball down sharply over the low looping net. Jay Gould called his floor shots "invincible." Soutar, running around, breathing hard, scored his points to the dedans and grille, made his best fight in the seventh game, then lost three games in succession, the match, and the title...
...Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar site on Fifty-seventh Street acquired by Otto H. Kahn two years ago for the new Metropolitan Opera House. Absolute friendliness, Mr. Kahn insists, prevails on the Board. Plans for the new house will proceed...