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Word: sixths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poilu. At present he knows that he will have to fight for at least three years. ... If it should last for three years then the word capitulation will not appear at the end of the third year, neither at the end of the fourth . . . and also not in the sixth or seventh year! The German people will not split up in this fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Reason for the sudden change: the advent of World War II changed the minds of Marion's customers in the latent coal-copper-iron business. They wanted shovels -wanted them fast. In ten days Marion got $1,000,000 worth of orders (one-sixth of a normal year's business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Shovels Up | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Last week his successor, husky, 61-year-old Samuel Brown Robertson, wound up his 20-year career with Goodrich by resigning. Unlike Jim Tew, Goodrich's sixth president (since 1870) did not sound off about signing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: British Tap | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Council is hoping to raise $10,000, but if the amount is to reach that figure, the remaining upperclassman have to subscribe more heavily than those who registered on Saturday. Making up about one-fourth of the college, they contributed only about one-sixth of the goal, Phil Neal '40, president of the Student Council, pointed out last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 991 Register, Contribute $1,675; Close to 2,000 Expected Today | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...promotion of Loren McKinney, an end, to the Red Jerseys brought the number of first squad players to 25. McKinney is the sixth end and probably the last to be given a Varsity jersey. Other first squad-ends are Gene Lovett, Joe Koufman, George Downing, Bartow Kelly, and Jim Devine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW STRESSES PRECISION, SPEED IN PRACTICE SESSION | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

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