Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth time in the nation's history, and for the second time this year, to determine Japan's future course in China...
...LIFE Building, Manhattan. And television cut another notch in its growing list of achievements. Conducting outdoor television tests in Rockefeller Center's Plaza, NBC's Iconoscope Cameraman Ross Plaisted was shifting his camera's focus when he caught the girl's falling body at the sixth floor, followed it to the ground. The telecast was not on the air but NBC engineers were watching the cabled tests in an RCA Building control room. While the camera was turning, the engineers were concerned with other parts of their reception apparatus. Death for the first time flashed across...
...summer school. The teachers come from high schools and colleges. Labor unions, college girls, Y. W. C. A.s, settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships, $250 for each girl. A committee scouts the country for likely students of 20 to 35, for whom the only requirements are a sixth-grade education, three years' working experience and enrollment in local study groups. Some students get leaves of absence from their employers; a few give up their jobs to take the course...
...spring of 1912 an English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went...
...Traditionally, the American Medical Association, now representing 109,435 of the country's 165,163 licensed doctors, stands for decentralized administration and private initiative. The political and economic tendency of the times, however, is toward larger-scale corporate activity, and many a U. S. doctor-with about a sixth of the population living on relief and another sixth also unable to support private medicine-would agree to some sort of medical socialization...