Word: 37th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ready for the great event of the morrow. London was like a gigantic brain, every cell of which was focussed on one central thought. Like parts of a vast body conditioned by that brain, the world-wide Empire pulsed and stirred to the same thought-Coronation, England's 37th since William the Conqueror and the beginning of modern British history...
Seven weeks and six days after it opened (TIME, March 22) in Manhattan, where 22,000 bowlers had bowled 37,675,584 Ib. of bowling balls 73,139 miles at 40,170 brand-new pins on 28 especially constructed alleys, the 37th annual American Bowling Congress last week finally drew to a close. Outstanding scores...
Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, first man to isolate electrons, which generate x-rays, and then to count them one by one, was the chief speaker at the 37th annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Cleveland last week. Dr. Millikan, who has a strong urge for evangelism acquired from his preacher father, stretched his advertised topic "High Energy Radiations and Their Uses" to declaim that "a democracy like ours cannot survive and war can never be eliminated unless we can learn to solve our social problems by the rational method." Less original but also instructive were the addresses...
...carries five spoons in his bag and uses them more expertly than any other golf professional in the world. Wood's prodigious driving, Runyan's spoon shots and his brilliant putting, brought them to the 36th green all even. Both sank 12-ft. putts. They halved the 37th with birdie 4's. On the 38th green, Wood's ball lay 12 ft. from the pin, his adversary's 8. Wood missed the putt. Runyan tapped his smartly into the cup, for match & title...
Last week Feisal's body reached Haifa, Palestine. A throng of 15,000 pious Moslems broke through a police cordon, threatened to topple over the official dais, trampled several people in an effort to touch the bier of a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed. British planes took the body to Bagdad, where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest...