Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, said Friday that we must "begin control of the atomic bomb at the source of the raw material." Recently elected president of the YMCA's National Council, Mather declared at their forty-fifth national convention that collaboration by ten nations that control the supply of uranium would prevent atomic warfare...
Relative to the article "God's Corner Lot" [TIME, March 4], why not change the location of the church as suggested [from Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at 48th to the East Seventies], spend $1,000,000 of the profit for a new edifice, and $2,000,000 to feed and clothe Europe's starving, freezing children...
...played at San José, Costa Rica, futbol-converted Carias ordered church bells rung, proclaimed a three-day national holiday. Dizzy with victory, he offered his tim $1,000 if it won the series. But despite prize money and bell-ringing, Costa Rica came in first, Guatemala second, Honduras fifth...
...Russian Government ("I hope we can establish the friendliest relations"). That done, he charged Russia with some unfriendly business. Russia, he said, was making Canada "a base for securing information of great importance to the United States and Great Britain." Inside the Dominion, he said, Russian infiltration was approaching fifth column proportions. He said: "It was as serious a situation as had arisen in Canada at any time...
...town meeting form of government was abandoned in 1846 because Cambridge, no longer a tiny University town, had become a bustling community of 12,000. Set up as the fifth incorporated city in Massachusetts, Cambridge today boasts a population of over...