Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Losch, febrific terpsichorean contortionist, the wife (on inactive status) of the Earl of Carnarvon, discussed her lives for a Manhattan society columnist. "My role of ballerina comes first. Second is my work as a choreographer. My acting comes third, my painting fourth. I rate my role as Lady Carnarvon fifth in importance simply because I can't think of anything interesting to put after painting...
...Houses, permission (for the reception of women) must be obtained from the Proctor or the Dean's Office and will be granted only when chaperons are to be present". This makes necessary the presence of two male chaperons for a student and his female guest, as well as a fifth person acting as chaperon if two couples are in a room--all this or the wrath of the Proctor and the University...
Dislocated. In Clay County, Mo., a bewildered resident consulted two county maps, found his street listed as North Terrace, Fortieth Ave., Devon Road, Thirty-Sixth St., Piburn Road, Fifth St., called for help...
...Zagreb sports auditorium, brilliantly lit for photographers and 500 spectators, the show trial of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac and twelve Catholic priests was rolling to a close. Charged by Marshal Tito with "crimes against the people" (TIME, Sept. 30), the 48-year-old head of the world's fifth largest Catholic diocese (1,800,000 members) temporarily lost his equanimity. He shook an angry finger at the court, cried: "Not only does the church in Yugoslavia have no freedom, but in a short while the church will be annihilated." He denied "forced conversion" of 230,000 Serbs to the Roman...
Nevertheless, at Princeton last week Bennett was still gloomy. Erosion, he said, had ruined one-fifth of the nation's tillable land, had damaged a third of the remainder, and was threatening another third. Something must be done...