Word: 70th
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...70th birthday, Norway's King Haakon sent a present to ex-Minister to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman: the Great Cross of St. Olaf, Norway's highest decoration...
...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...
...Henry Schuman, dealer in rare medical books. Mr. Schuman has made a very good thing out of what started as a hobby. Last week he moved ten tons (about 20,000 volumes) of valuable books to his new, five-story house-and-bookshop on Manhattan's swank East 70th Street...
Every golfing oldster has heard about the fabulous legend of Canadian George Lyon, who scored a 70 on his 70th birthday, continued to "shoot his age" when he was 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. Last week there were no Lyons in the pack. Best Class A score for 36 holes was 180 (88-92), chalked up by C. T. Jaffray, 75, of Minneapolis...
Somehow he roused Tapscott, and somehow-he never knew-they guided their boat to land. It was the 70th day. The island was Eleuthera, in the Bahamas, over 2,500 miles from where they had abandoned ship. A farmer and his wife, who saw the empty boat on the beach and followed the tracks, found them nearby...