Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to be visible as far as Berchtesgaden as little General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Commander in Chief of all French land, sea and air forces, arrived in London one day last week for talks with Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white...
Fortnight ago little Black Mountain College, in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, finished its sixth year and laid plans for its seventh. Orthodox educators were surprised at its persistence. Black Mountain resembles no other college in the U. S. It requires no attendance at classes, grants no degrees, has no president, no fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such...
Actually, Britain is boss of the waves to a greater extent than in 1914, when the German Navy was second in the world, not sixth. But air menace makes the value of England's navy a conundrum, the tradition of Nelson a question mark. London, nerve-centre of the Empire, is 330 miles closer to German airports than Berlin is to English airports. British aircraft and munitions factories are easy targets in the open. And in another war Britain's food supply from overseas may be threatened by air raiders as well as submarine raiders...
...only other contest on the week's card, Penn shut out Columbia as its Sophomore right hander, Tony Caputo, turned in a one-bitter, but the Red and Blue remained in sixth place. It was the season's finale for the Lions, who finished in the League cellar...
Scouts for the scouts are college baseball coaches. Some coaches are on the payroll of big-league clubs, some get commissions when players they recommend are signed up. Because their salaries are small (about one-sixth that of college football coaches) the practice of scouting is a welcome perquisite for baseball coaches, keeps many of them at a job hey otherwise might quit...