Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Necessarily So), stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music for the cinema Delicious. He wrote the score for the Astaire-Ginger Rogers picture, Shall We Dance (TIME, May 10). He was working on the sixth of nine songs for the Goldwyn Follies when he died...
...third of the population of the six counties already are anxious to join with us and if you can get another one-sixth of the whole population of the six counties to support the idea of unity of Ireland, then you will have a majority for the unity of Ireland. When we have got that majority the problem of the unity of the country will be solved. . . . There has been no question of force in regard to the six counties. We recognize it would be a distasteful task and one which probably would not succeed and which ultimately...
...fought aggressively as he had promised to do. Louis, his confidence restored since his Schmeling defeat, fought as he always does, with a cool, poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from a long gash on his upper lip and he knew, as he said later, that unless he could land a lucky punch, the end of his career as champion was at hand...
...property owner the size of the claim makes little difference, for the real value of the tax certificate is its nuisance value. The buyer cannot claim his one-fourth or one-sixth or one-one-hundredth of one-one-hundredth of one-quadrillionth until the end of two years, during which time the property owner may redeem the certificate for the amount of the back taxes plus 25% interest for the first year, 8% thereafter. Since the certificate is a cloud on the title, most certificates are eventually redeemed. The buyers are usually mortgagees seeking to protect their position...
...Commencement was held in 1644, and, owing to war, pestilence, disorder, and other causes, three were none in 1752, 1757, 1764, or from 1774 to 1780, inclusive. Since 1781 there has been one every year. Apparently, therefore, the 1937 exercises are the two hundred and eighty-sixth...