Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual events in which the first three contestants get respectively gold, silver and bronze medals. Unofficially, sportswriters long ago worked out a system to determine team championships by awarding ten points for first place, five for second, four for third and so on down to one point for sixth in each event. On this basis last week, the U. S., winner of the Olympic Games at Lake Placid in 1932, finished a feeble fifth. Norway won with 121 points. Germany was second with 57, Sweden third with 49. Less startling than these results to the 350,000 people who watched...
...Boston Symphony in giving the fifth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tonight. The program consists of Beetheven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral), Debussy's "Prelude a I' Apres-midi d'un Faune," "Till Eulcnspiegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss, and Professor Piston's Concerto for orchestra. Of these, the first three have already been performed this year at the concerts in Boston. The concerto by Mr. Piston, who is sometimes known as a "classicist," was composed in 1933 and was recently played by the Boston Symphony in New York. It will be remembered that the Second String Quartet...
...11th. After playing a little Rimsky-Korsakov on my gramaphone, that is so soft and fresh that pleases me mightily, betimes to the office to see the schedule which is as follows: Professor Taylor in Emerson H at 12 continues his intellectual history of Europe by talking on fifth, sixth and seventh century notions of God and the universe. At 2 o'clock this afternoon Professor Tozzer talks on "Sex and Religion", 3rd floor Peabody Museum. A friend, who knows, tells me this will be exceedingly good. On Thursday at 11 Professor Clark speaks on Hinduism, Harvard...
Henrys Fourth, Fifth and Sixth...
...Edward Sixth and Queen Mary...