Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth member of the team was Chairman David Lilienthal. He was a man who had roused bitter controversy. He was a vigorous personality and people felt strongly about...
Founding Father. The workers in Mexico, the speaker in Central Park, and many another who marked the day, remembered that Bolívar was the liberator of four countries: his native Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, an area ten times the size of mother Spain; that he founded a fifth, Bolivia, once known as Upper Peru. They forgot his fatal quarrels with associates...
...fifth class is composed of even less proficient oarsmen who will race in compromise sculls while the beginners will have a special event in their wherries...
...winter, and moves to the Virginia estate of Mr. Moneybags when the latter gentleman comes north for the summer. Except for his kind heart, which causes him to take in an un-manageaable number of guests, and the loneliness of the millionaire's daughter, which takes her to the Fifth Avenue residence in mid-winter, the happy hobo could have continued indefinitely his surreptitous seasonal migrations...
Some 4,000 years ago, according to Japanese legend, the Buddhist priest Bodhidharma tried to stay awake for seven years. In the fifth year he got sleepy and cut off his eyelids. They took root. From the leaves of the bushes that grew, he made a brew that enabled him to finish his vigil. That's how tea began...