Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Willard L. Sperry will be honored at a student-conducted tea this afternoon in commemoration of his twenty-fifth year as dean of the Divinity School...
...they were shy young men and showed little inclination to brave the noisy world. In 1909, when Homer was 27 and Langley 23, they were still living with their parents in a handsome, three-story brownstone on upper Fifth Avenue. Then their father & mother separated. The brothers began shutting themselves off from life...
Bowl of Milk. A fortnight ago, Manhattan police got a strange telephone call. A man's voice said: "This is Charles Smith. There is a dead man at 2078 Fifth Avenue...
...century, Massey-Harris Co. has progressed from plows to self-propelled combines. It is now Canada's biggest farm-implement maker-and the world's fifth largest-with five plants in Canada, three in the U.S. and subsidiaries scattered around the globe. But in its maturity its production arteries hardened...
...Horse. In a few years, he made millions, cut a wide swath on Broadway. He sank $40,000 in a play, acquired a swank Fifth Avenue apartment, took to horseback riding in Central Park and dealing with such labor racketeers as Joey Fay. In 1937 the murder of a striking sandhog labor leader, whom Sam had supposedly threatened to kill, almost toppled him from his throne. Police held Sam as a material witness, but freed him for lack of evidence...