Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whittemore was spark plug of the Yearling batting attack, cracking out three bingles, two of which figured in one run rallies, first is the sixth and then again in the eighth...
...resolution sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner and Massachusetts' Representative Rogers would lift U. S. immigration quotas to let 20,000 child refugees from Germany (one-sixth of the estimated number who are in "desperate straits") enter the U. S. this year and next. At hearings on the bill last week, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity) drew the pitiable picture of Jewish children in Germany barred from schools and from playing in parks, spat upon in the streets, seldom able to see their hunted fathers...
...officer" read a telegram from "the Commander of the Sixth Corps area." It ordered all young men to report their names at once, be prepared for a war draft. As the collegians sat speechless, up jumped one of their number to cry: "You'll be fools to enlist!" From a hundred throats came a roar: "Yellow!" In a trice Cornell's student body was on its feet, shouting, screaming, stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell...
...impregnable, but rangy, Bible-brandishing Major General Dobbie, its commander, refused to say it was, thought it "probably the most peaceful spot on earth." Almost as open a secret as the 18-inch naval guns dismounted to form land batteries, blabs Traveler Gardner, is the fact that nearly one-sixth of the funds to build the base came from the British sale of opium to addicts, a Government monopoly...
...Sixth ranking hurler in the Eastern Intercollegiate League last year with four wins and three losses, Farber's southpaw slants may trouble the Crimson more today than they did last Friday when he yielded 13 safeties. With 43 victims to his credit, the Tiger flinger was second only to Yale's Mee Jubitz in the 1938 circuit strikeout rankings...