Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard also received another sizable contribution when the Class of 1938, celebrating its twentieth reunion, yesterday gave the College $21,882 to establish the "Class of 1938 War Memorial Scholarship...
...Last week railroadmen spread the story that two Pullman cars on the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited had been derailed near Syracuse in April. Point: no passenger was hurt because there was not a single one in either...
...Twentieth century commentaries are also included and form some of the most interesting material in the book, especially those of Juanita Brooks, Dale. L. Morgan, Samuel W. Taylor, and Wallace Stegner whose eulogy to Salt Lake City concludes the volume. Indeed, the major complaint one can find with Among the Mormons is that the accounts are concentrated too heavily in the earlier periods of Mormon history, giving the book an overly academic tone...
...great age of railroads, one of the symbols of elegance was the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited. In the last 56 years, the Twentieth Century acquired such features as barbershops, valets, showers, radiotelephone service, gift corsages, earned about $200 million as the most luxurious way of traveling between New York and Chicago. At its popular peak, the train ran seven sections. But the Century's patrons have been gradually defecting to the airlines. The passengers dwindled from hundreds to as few as 75 recently, and the Central has lost $1.50 for every $5 it took...
After giving Dr. No the giant-land-crab treatment, the New Statesman's Critic Paul Johnson suggested that Fleming fans were psychosocial cousins of prison torturers in Algeria. In the current Twentieth Century, Bernard Bergonzi called Fleming's attitude toward sex that "of a dirty-minded schoolboy." He noted that the women are usually pushovers in a Fleming novel, and cited a bra-and-pantie-clad minx named Tiffany Case, who says not too long after she meets Bond: "I want it all, darling...