Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orchids to TIME for your splendid article on Kansas Prohibition [TIME, Sept. 9]. . . . Kansas dry laws are as big a farce as Mississippi's Bilbo. In Wichita one can purchase a fifth of Schenley's, Seagram's, or even Old Granddad for only...
...ordinary people to get the kind of place they want to live in were far down. In Manhattan, Communist-line Michael Quill, head of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union, saw his chance to create unrest and political capital. He urged veterans to squat in boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansions, as the Commies had done in London...
Tschaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 12 sides). The best Fifth on records, extraordinarily lyrical and Russian, with characteristic Koussevitzky accents. Performance: excellent...
...almost ten years, Novelist Cecil Scott Forester's tarry yarns (Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, etc.) have delighted readers of all ages-even those who usually get a touch of seasickness from historical romances, marine or otherwise. This fifth and (according to the publishers) last of the series is the poorest of the lot. It involves too much dry-land maneuvering and lush love-making on Hornblower's part, too little Royal Navy salt and lore...
Ballooning from 219 in 1940 to 449 this year, History 5 led the catalog in percentage increase, as enrollment swelled by 125 percent to make it the fifth largest elective...