Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson needed only four hits to down the Bengal, while Lincoln was denied a no-hit, no-run performance through a scratch infield single by Dick Bell in the sixth and Ken Sandbach's long drive to left in the ninth...
...swam the 220-yd. free-style in 2:10.8, fastest competitive time on record. Next evening he won the 500-yd. free style in 5:16.3, breaking the accepted world's record for that distance by 10 seconds, setting marks for 250, 300 and 400 yd. en route. Sixth important record was 1 :36.1 for the 150-yd. back stroke, made by Adolph Kiefer...
...amateur naturalist who spends much of his time nosing around the laboratories of the American Museum of Natural History. One day last week he was watching burly, affable Herpetologist Gladywn Kingsley Noble at work in his clean smock among his pans, tanks and cages on the Museum's sixth floor. He saw Dr. Noble feeding grubs to a small frog which looked exactly as if it had been skinned alive. Its eyes were pink...
Stirred by this furor, the Museum administration had Whitey moved down, from the sixth floor into the main foyer and the majestic company of "Ahnighito," 36½-ton meteorite from Greenland, the regal statue of the Museum's longtime (1881-1908) President Morris Ketchum Jesup, the big scale drawing of Baluchi-therium (TIME, April 8). Although in her informal surroundings upstairs Whitey had postured freely for the Press, she now retired as if in stage fright to one end of her glass cage, sat motionless and goggling behind a fern, presented to squadrons of school children only a vague...
...nothing to do with a sudden shift in the internal affairs of the New York Stock Exchange, which is something of a world to itself. The prospect of a hot contest for the presidency in the coming Exchange elections disappeared when Richard Whitney decided not to run for a sixth term. Since it was a foregone conclusion that the nominating committee would not pick Mr. Whitney to succeed himself, his friends were loudly urging him to break all precedent by standing on an independent ticket in order to vindicate his turbulent administration (TIME, April...