Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth year of the so-called depression, and the 25 months of strenuous effort under the New Deal to reform the system has only proved that it is beyond reform. . . . The conviction grows, therefore, that Capitalism must be discarded and a planned Christian economy be established...
...CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime...
...sixth singles, Oelsney forced Godon F. Robertson '36 to three sets. With the match, one set apiece, Robertson slowed down and Oelsney made it five all. They jockeyed back and forth, with Robertson first in the lead and then all even till he finally clinched...
Winthrop House went into the sixth inning with a lead of four runs, and the total was added to by Berry's home run, which proved to be the margin of victory when Brooks House rang up four runs in their half of the seventh. Letarte's throw from third base, however, cut short the rally and ended the game...
...manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made any money. The sixth, The Devil Is a Woman, is notable chiefly because, since Director von Sternberg's contract has not been renewed, it terminates this unfortunate alliance by illustrating its disadvantages even more strikingly than its predecessors...