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Word: tenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...brightstar name of Jackie Cooper, is not likely to cause a traffic jam. Strikingly similar to a Universal-Cooper vehicle of last season titled Newsboys' Home, it exhibits Jackie, now a burly, downy adolescent of 15, as an honest newsboy who struggles to become the Abraham Lincoln of Tenth Avenue by studying law at night school. He also has a racketeering elder brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson never-say-die spirit which cropped up in the eighth and again in the tenth inning of the Harvard-Columbia baseball game Saturday afternoon at draughty Baker Field, and produced a heart-warming victory for the Stablmen, as they rose to overwhelm the Lions...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: CRIMSON DEFEATS LION NINE 11 TO 3 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Smart stickwork by Lupien started the Crimson on their eight run rally in the tenth. Both infield and outfield were playing deep when Lupe dropped a bunt and beat it out. Hoye's sacrifice was thrown into centerfield as Desmond, Columbia backstop, vainly attempted to nip the traveling Lupien at second. Harvard's next gesture was a bunt by Tully, which pitcher Cerny fielded, only to find Stabl's fleet first-sacker already at third...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: CRIMSON DEFEATS LION NINE 11 TO 3 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...fact, Johns-Manville was the outstanding public relations success of 1938. And the man chiefly responsible is its 45-year-old president, big, handsome Lewis Herold Brown. Last week, at a luncheon celebrating his tenth year as president, the J-M Officers Board (a management group as opposed to the ownership group which forms the board of directors) gave him a gift symbolizing his success in building up J-M esprit de corps-a gold locket containing pictures of his associates. Three days later at the annual stockholders' meeting J-M owners added their stamp of unanimous approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC RELATIONS: Corporate Soul | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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