Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baxter. In Chapin Hall, Williamstown, Mass., where 23 years before he had delivered a student's valedictory, Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, became at 44 the tenth president of Williams College. Historian Baxter: "We are witnessing the collapse of the world's system of collective security. . . . Our own country . . . has placed on the statute books a new system of neutrality which in the opinion of many careful students is more likely to involve us in war than our old system...
...Book. Death forms the background of Hemingway's tenth and latest book, his only novel with a U. S. background. But readers of previous love & death stories by Hemingway will find in To Have and Have Not a maturity which reflects the more serious turn his personal life has taken in the last year. For the queasy, it should be added that many of the killings (twelve) in To Have and Have Not are perpetrated with much goriness; for the straitlaced, that the book brings to naked print practically all the four-letter words extant, contains scenes in which...
...Freshman race will be run first. Starting at the race track on the road to Brighton the yearlings will cover the distance of approximately two and six tenth miles, finishing at the Newell Boat House on the Boston side of the Charles River. Holy Cross is sending five Freshmen, and nothing is known about their capabilities. Of the Crimson 1941 team R. B. Nichols and C. H. Oldfather are outstanding as demonstrated by their excellent times in the University Handicap Race last Friday...
...publicize the Paris International Exposition, Minister Cot last fall suddenly conceived and as suddenly announced an air race from New York to Paris on May 21, tenth anniversary of Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. Prize was a whopping $135,000 and the race was to be run no matter how bad the weather (TIME, Sept. 7). This suicidal suggestion at once drew protests from airmen all over the world, including Lindbergh, who had not been consulted. Chastened Minister Cot then extended the starting period to a month and closed the race to all but multi-motored planes with radios...
...merchant marine can be defined as 3,475 ships weighing 12,474,693 tons and comprising about a tenth of the world's vessels. It can be defined better as 957 ships, for only that many actually engage in foreign competition. By the most significant definition of all, the U. S. merchant marine is the ricketiest collection of tubs owned by any important nation-85% over 17 years old, carrying less than 40% of U. S. foreign trade, grossing an estimated $200,000,000 a year or about as much as the soft-drink business. But soft drinks make...