Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winifred lost her campaign by seven votes, but last week she was rewarded. Samuel Fassler, leader of the Sixth Assembly District, surprised her by planting on her curly dark hair the crown of co-leader, making her the youngest (age 26) and prettiest of Tammany bosses...
Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had five divisions under arms, organized a sixth division of 20,000 men, named Major General Sir Thomas A. Blarney to command...
...other Mikkola trained men took fourth, fifth, and sixth and seventh place as follows: R. Wing, '40 in 19:06, W. P. Tuttle '40 in 19:37, E. V. Clark '40 in 20:06, and Jim Lightbody...
...curtain came down on the Republic of Poland, the quarrel of Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-Rydz on a railway platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered Poland successfully for years...
Last time, seven German armies were concentrated on the French border. The Sixth and Seventh, under Prince Rupprecht and General Herringen, respectively, were massed above and below Strasbourg to drive into the valley of the Moselle. The northern five were to execute the famed "swinging door" plan of Count Alfred von Schlieffen...