Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds behind Woodland and Minor came Pier and Woodard, next an Eli, with Channing and Walker fourth and fifth of the Mikkola-men. O'Neill was the sixth Crimson man, and Scheu the seventh...
Suave young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System pointed out that his chain is already giving one-sixth of its time free to Religion & Education. Said he: "Columbia has carefully refrained from imposing on its audience any small personal concepts of what the audience ought to receive...
...Cabinet issued a decree law bounteously increasing the income tax exemption which German children bring to their grateful parents. Hereafter the first child will mean a 15% income tax cut and each bouncing moppet thereafter will reduce the tax by an additional 20% until with the birth of their sixth Kind, total exemption from income tax will come to Vater und Mutter...
...mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...Century when Roosevelt I was jousting with Big Business, the idea of a Federal incorporation law was seriously pondered. But, as the nation grew richer, the subject of corporate reform grew less interesting. Last week, under Roosevelt II national charters were up again, this time in the sixth report of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on their findings of the past three years. Said the Committee...