Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlucky. Among the first utterances of Passenger Levine, after landing in Germany, was a cablegram to the Hearst press: "Lindbergh was lucky and we were not. If we had had one-tenth of Lindbergh's luck, we would have done much better. The wind was against us 75% of the way. . . . Still, we flew for 44 hours, and covered 4,400 miles as against Lindbergh's 33½ hours and 3,600 miles. But Lindbergh was lucky and we were...
...Whitbeck '27, leader of this year's court aggregation, and L. H. Gordon '27, number two player on the team, both of whom will go to England this summer with the combined Harvard-Yale tennis team which will meet the Oxford-Cambridge players, are ranked fourth and tenth respectively. Two players from Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Williams, and one from Dartmouth have been named to make up the team...
...number two, while Part-ridge of Dartmouth is in the third position. Following is the ranking of the other men chosen by Coach Dell: Captain Watson of Yale, fifth: Sullivan of Lehigh, sixth: Wolf of Williams, seventh: Appel of Princeton, eight: McGlinn of Yale, ninth: Gordon of Harvard, tenth: Milten of Pennsylvania, eleventh: Rowden of Columbis, thirteenth...
General Summerall gave a detailed account of the engagement in which McKinlock lost his life. At the height of the German advance in the spring of 1918 Marshal Foch began to gather his forces for a counter advance. The first division of Americans was with the tenth French army which was in the van of the new forces thrown in the way of the victorious enemy. McKinlock was with the first division as a brigade staff officer and was scouting the German lines on intelligence duty when he fell. His death did not come, however, until he had rendered important...
Rough House Rosie (Clara Bow) is moderately diverting nonsense about a hoyden from Tenth Avenue who wants to be a lady. She makes a hit in a cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...