Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League points out of its Beacon Street windows across the Common to some of the worst slums in New England and asks what they are doing there. In 1940, the Housing Authority found that one third of Boston's dwellings had no heat but stoves. The survey classed one fifth of the homes substandard and reported that half of these had no running water, private baths, or toilets. "And this condition," Lyons adds, "had changed only by further deterioration...
...Captain George Shedd, the schussmen will field a group which has raced together all season with increasing success. Rising from next-to-last places in the Dartmouth Carnival and intercollegiate Ski Union meets, the team finished fifth in the Appalachian Mountain Club Downhill contest last weekend...
...dual win for Kirkland over Leverett and Dunster gave the Deacons the runner-up slot, while dropping Winthrop to third. Dunster topped Leverett 26 to 13 to move into fourth place, leaving Eliot and Leverett tied for fifth and Dudley in the year...
Volleyball enters the lists today as Lowell opens the season against Adams, with Dudley and Eliot rounding out the afternoon. Fifth and final sport to see action is League "B" squash, which boasts a match between Leverett and Eliot...
...York Minster, celebrated for its architecture and its acoustics.* When he left in 1913 to come to the U.S., Archbishop of York Cosmo Gordon Lang (later Archbishop of Canterbury) charged him: "I want you to go to America and take some of York Minster into your church on Fifth Avenue. You must carry some of the old world into...