Word: sist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Letourner & Marcel Guimbre-tiere, French "Red Devils": the sist riding of Manhattan's Six-Day Bicycle Race, at Madison Square Garden. Second, by a lap lost in the last hour, was a team of French unknowns, Georges Coupry & Michel Pecqueux...
...Baker was unable to attend last year's banquet which celebrated the first award and the sist birthday of The American Hebrew. But he attended last week, hailed Archbishop Hanna as "a warrior in the fight against prejudice," hoped that acclaim would "give him the satisfaction which ought to come to even so great and good a man from the admiration and affection of his friends...
Elected board chairman was the largest man present, rotund George McClelland Reynolds of Chicago. Iowa-born 66 years ago, he is in his Sist year of banking. With his brother Arthur he built up the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust to fourth largest in the U. S., biggest outside New York. Famed as merger masters, the Brothers Reynolds accomplished their last coup in 1929 when their bank absorbed Illinois Merchants Trust Co., onetime stronghold of Ernest Hamill and John J. Mitchell...
...International Telephone 6 Telegraph Corp-(TIME, July 13), was made president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co,, succeeding newlywed Clarence Hungerford Mackay who becomes board chairman. General Gibbs's record in the Army was long and active. He entered the service in 1898 as a private in the sist Iowa Infantry. In 1900, after participating in 28 Spanish War skirmishes & engagements, he was made a first lieutenant, signal officer. He served several years in Alaska and Cuba in the construction of military telegraph lines. For his work in the Signal Corps during the War he was decorated by five governments...
When Ludwig II, Bavaria's mad king, wished to honor his friend Wilhelm Richard Wagner on his sist birthday in 1864, he thought a piano would make a nice gift. But something really original in the way of a piano! He commissioned Carl Bechstein, who had been in the trade in Berlin for just eleven years, to make one. Today, visitors to Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth are always shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house...