Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted (63-10-7) for the sixth time a resolution by Nebraska's Norris to amend the Constitution for the elimination of the short ("lame duck") session of Congress; sent it to the House where Speaker Garner promised it favorable consideration...
...little part. Impartial observers rate him thus: a pretty good" Congressman, personally popular with his colleagues, active in House affairs, attentive to his district's wants. Neither profound nor brilliant he performed national service by his hard-hitting advocacy of Reapportionment. Though he is now serving his sixth term. 1 old title of "baby" handicaps him in advancing toward real leadership...
...Wood, Jr. '32 placed sixth in the vote for the James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal, which is awarded annually to the country's outstanding amateur athletic. The winner of the medal this year was Barney Berlinger, University of Pennsylvania track and field star...
...against young George Kelly of Philadelphia, nephew of Playwright George Kelly who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. Greenleaf's victory -126 to 119-gave him the championship prize of $1,200, in addition to his salary of $6,000 for three weeks' play, and one-sixth of the gate receipts...
...Indeed, we should not be surprised to learn that some of our Western statesmen had already made an industrious study of Shakespeare and borrowed, deliberately or unconsciously, some of the remarkable economic notions so eloquently preached by Jack Cade, as reported in the second part of King Henry the Sixth, Vowing that there should be reform in the land, he made rash promises of what he would do when he came into power--"There shall be in England seven half-penny leaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make...