Word: sixtieth
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...rifle brigade of the Sixtieth Rifles [Queen Victoria's Rifles], with a battalion of British tanks and 1,000 Frenchmen, in all about 4,000 strong, defended Calais to the last. The British brigadier was given an hour to surrender. He spurned the offer. Four days of intense street fighting passed before the silence reigned in Calais which marked the end of a memorable resistance...
...record of one bolt passing through the arrester and dissected by the fulchronograph shows that it reached a crest of 21,000 amperes, then fell rapidly (in 100 microseconds) to 1,000 amperes, and from that point more slowly to zero. From start to finish the flash lasted one-sixtieth of a second. Engineer Wagner intends to acquire a complete gallery of different types of bolt, then redesign the arresting equipment on transmission lines in accordance with what he learns...
...least 50% of old men. Bending a Freudian ear to their querulous complaints, Psychiatrist Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton of Santa Barbara, Calif, offers the opinion that old men & women are no less troubled by sex problems than are the young. Says he: "Many persons . . . who have passed their sixtieth year vaguely feel that it is time they were done with sex as a personal issue." This makes them feel isolated, unattractive, frustrated. Despite Freud's admission that psychoanalysis is applicable only to young, elastic personalities, Dr. Hamilton claims that patient analysis brings peace and equanimity to many...
...MacLean, dean of University of Minnesota's General College, delivered the famed Inglis Lecture at Harvard, proposed that teaching of arithmetic continue through college. "I know of one nurse," said he, "who gave a child a lethal two-thirtieths of strychnine because there was no bottle containing one-sixtieth...
...concert was held in the central court of the Museum. It opened with Brahms' "Quartet in C Minor," Opus 51, No. 1. This was followed by "Fantaisie Hebraique," written for Warburg on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday by Pochon, and by Beethoven's "Quartet in E Flat Major...