Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Butter. Finland suffers war's inevitable inflation and the lowering of living standards. The Finnmark is officially valued at about one-fifth its prewar (2?) value. But its actual value is about one-tenth. By official statistics, Finnish taxes are almost seven times higher than in 1935. In the U.S. meaning of the word, almost all Finns are workers. The country has exactly 100 people with annual incomes of as much as 1,000,000 Finnmarks-$7,352 at the official rate of exchange. For workers, the cost of living has risen 4½ times over...
...Miss Aline Neal was his favorite teacher. Eddie said he liked Miss Neal because she "never sent any of us to the principal's office." In fact, he liked her so much ("and she's so pretty") that last spring, when Eddie was promoted to the fifth grade at Duling Public School, he asked the principal to promote Miss Neal...
...Blue must now win two of their remaining three games--two with Princeton and one more with the Crimson--to clinch the E.I.L., title. Yesterday afternoon's victory was Quinn's fifth consecutive win in League competition this year...
...Crimson point winners came through pretty much as Coach Mikkola had expected. Captain Wes Flint took thirds in both hurdles, Freshman Don Trimble won the javelin throw, Pete Harwood annexed the pole vault title, Bill Jackson was fifth in the shot, and Jack Fisher and Sam Felton placed two-three in the hammer...
Charles Evans Hughes said of Professor Pound on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, "He has a unique place among American scholars. By reason of his wide knowledge of legal subjects and his rare talent for exposition, he has been a brilliant teacher. His writings constitute a notable contribution to the science of jurisprudence. He has also been a close student of the practical problems of the courts and has greatly aided in promoting sound administrative measures...