Word: 89th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand German scientists tumbled into smoky Dösseldorf last week for the 89th congress of the Society of German Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first class coaches or in clattering fourth class vans, whether with leather portmanteaux or wicker lunch cases, whether smartly frocked or draggedly trousered-the ten thousand meant this congress to be the renaissance of a German culture, without the patina of which, in the years before the War, no student anywhere felt himself raised above shambling mediocrity...
...89th birthday of Grover Cleveland was celebrated in Manhattan last week. President Cleveland's widow, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, his son Richard Cleveland, a Baltimore lawyer, and his daughter Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, were present. The faded shingle bearing the name "G. Cleveland" which hung in front of a law office in Buffalo many years ago, was presented to Richard Cleveland. Mrs. Susie Cleveland Yeomans, 83 (sister), heard tributes to her brother by radio in her Brooklyn home...
...years ago, on his 89th birthday, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Yale '56, received an invitation from fellow Elis of the class of '89 to join their number, be their brother, attend their class reunions as adopted patriarch. Mr. Depew accepted this "beautiful and welcome hospitality...
...89th birthday the class of '89 made me a member. It was a beautiful and most welcome hospitality. It is renewing my youth; it takes 33 years off from my age and associates me with the healthy and vigorous maturity of the class of '89. Dr. Faust sold himself to the devil to gain the results, and the use he made of it sent him to Hell. But the inspiration and joy of camaraderie with the class of '89 is the full realization of the Yale spirit...