Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seized it, shook it, mounted the platform, shook hands again. He began a speech, shook hands again. He continued speaking, shook hands again. He finished speaking, shook hands again. Mr. Fitzgerald then sang "Sweet Adeline" as he always does at emo- tional moments. Mr. Curley applauded. They shook hands (sixth time), for the cameras, and Boston's Democracy was lapped in perfect bliss for the first time since last spring...
...splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census takers had just announced that Shanghai is now the sixth largest metropolis in the world (2,726,046). Celebrants in many a Chinacity and Chinatown applauded floats from which bobbed haired "Girls of the Revolution" flaunted the red, blue and white Nationalist flag and cried shrilly "China for the Chinese...
...Other developments in a week of early season activity included a rumor that Princeton would disown the famed huddle-system which it began to use long before its puzzled rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing...
...Harvard Club of Boston has added still another scholarship to its list of awards. Eugene Edwin Record '32 of 53 Beaconsfield Road, Brookline is announced as the holder for the coming academic year of 1928-29 of the sixth Harvard Club Scholarship...
...eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries looked back to the immediately preceding centuries--especially the fourth, fifth, and sixth--as to the epoch of the Founders of their civilization. Among these Founders whom Professor Rand has chosen as most significant for later developments are St. Ambrose, the Mystic; St. Jerome, the Humanist; Boethius, the first of the Scholastics; and St. Augustine as a precursor, in some respects, of Dante. He also treats of the New Poetry of Latin Christianity and the New Education in relation to both the past and the future including our own times. The fundamental consideration...