Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Congressmen from below the Mason-Dixon line speak up, southern womanhood rarely lacks champions. Georgia's Fifth District last week sent the House a woman to speak for herself...
Last week he got them together on the fifth floor of the General Motors building. There the bosses of G.M. and the United Auto workers stubbornly fought over the wage and contract issues which have kept the company tied up twelve weeks, at a loss of more than $100,000,000 in wages. Dewey sat in their midst, slouched in his. chair, drumming the table and nodding his grey-thatched head...
...John S. Bonnell of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church found "many helpful changes where the meaning of the text is ambiguous or obscure," but feared that the Revised Standard might "bring some of the atmosphere of the street into . . . the sanctuary...
...ever heard Brother Birdwell pray so loudly. He prayed in the name of all the sinners in the Old Testament-in the name of Adam, of Moses, of David, of Solomon, of Abraham, of Jephthah. When Mattie struck up The Old Musician for the fifth time, Jess swept into the New Testament. When Mattie pulled out the fortissimo stop, Jess's resonant pleading fairly shook the studding. "Friend," said Amos Pease, when at last the agony was over, "thee's been an instrument of the Lord this night. . . . Thy prayer carried us so near to heaven...
...this season. Comparative scores show that Dartmouth split a two-game series with Yale, losing the first 6 to 4, and taking the second 6 to 5, while Harvard bowed to the Elis last week by a 9 to 2 count. Eddie Jeremiah's squad enters this fifty-fifth contest between the Green and Crimson with a season record of our wins and two losses...