Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandfatherly elevator man had never made so many trips so fast, nor in such a creaking weight of company. Lines formed out to the sidewalk waiting to get in. The little fifth-floor gallery, which usually regarded 100 people a day as a crowd, was filled with so many hundreds every day that the building superintendent worried about undue strain on the floor. Silver-haired Art Dealer Sam Kootz was delighted; he had scooped Manhattan's arty 57th Street with the first one-man show of new Picassos since before...
Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 36, baseball's current home-run king, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 31, an heiress to Gimbel Bros.-Saks Fifth Avenue millions: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Glenn Hank. Weight...
...Berlin, Conn., last week the Board of Education moved to sidestep the touchy issue of religion in public schools, turned down a Gideon offer of 650 New Testaments. The Gideons were unperturbed. Said one: "Our goal is to get [New Testaments] to the . . . school children in America from the fifth grade through high school. . . . We are carried by faith. . . . We've just started...
...popes had to be dropped: one (Donus II) never existed; two (the supposed third & fifth Popes Cletus and Anacletus) were the same man. But three new popes had been found: Boniface VI (for a few days in 896), and, possibly, Discorus (for 22 days in 530) and Leo VIII (from 963 to 965). In the case of no fewer than 74 popes, changes had to be made in such matters as their names and dates...
...implications of Part Three of the volume, in which its author reviews succinctly the plans of Britain, Canada, Australia, and Sweden, contrasting with them the patchwork procedures so far evolved in the United States. The object-lesson is pellucidly set forth; in matters economic, this nation runs a poor fifth to its more enlightened and more alert neighbors. A solon utterly unable to follow the rigorous argument of the other parts of Professor Hansen's work would learn that the heresies of Lord Keynes are fast becoming the orthodoxies of chancellories from Stockholm to New South Wales...