Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master; and also the sooty-haired Samson of British industrialization, which threatened to flatten their walled gardens and blot out their bits of blue...
...Twenty-fifth reunion activities, always most prominent in Commencement Week and expected to be attended this yearly about 700 members of the Class of and their families, will dove-tail with the general program at several points, but in addition will include a Tuesday outing to the North Shore, and a men's display on the pre-war scale at the Parker Heuse Wednesday evening...
...fifth, two hits and an error upped the Connecticut total to seven, but, in their half of the same inning, Harvard pushed one run across on Swegan's triple and an infield out. They gained ground with two more runs, in the sixth on two errors and Ed Foynes' single...
...incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...
Starting in 1933, when mortgages were being foreclosed at the rate of 1,000 a day, HOLC made more than 1,000,000 loans, totaling some $3,500,000,000. In the next three years (its lending period) it refinanced one-fifth of the nonfarm, owner-occupied, mortgaged homes in the nation. Thanks to the war boom, more than three fourths of the loans have now been paid off. By the end of 1945, only 483,000 borrowers were still on the books, while another 348,000 borrowers had paid their loans in full without waiting for them to mature...