Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale was held on the fifth floor, but elevators did not stop there. To reach the scene of battle customers had to take slow escalators or ride elevators to the fourth or sixth floor and go on foot from there. When the crowds grew too thick, Gimbels turned the escalators...
...fifth floor, combatants were shepherded into a long, wide column. Thirty store detectives patrolled its edges, like cow hands riding herd on the old Chisholm Trail, eyes alert for mavericks. The column wound through vistas of antique furniture and past paintings of cows grazing in sylvan scenes. Once customers sighted the nylon counters, they found themselves in a maze of waist-high fences. To get out they had to make nine turns, pass through ten narrow aisles...
...International Air Transport Association (an organization of 44 airlines of 24 nations), subject to periodic review by the U.S. and British Governments. In return, the British gave up their attempt to limit the number of trips to be flown by U.S. airlines, dropped all opposition to the "fifth freedom of the air"-i.e., the right of one nation's airlines to pick up passengers in a second country, destined for a third...
Asano pictures himself as an internationalist in his autobiography printed in the 1912 twenty-fifth anniversary report. As a result of his Harvard training, he has "been enabled to look upon life from an international point of view...no nation may live apart from other nations." Now that "the boundaries of the community in which we live have been extended to embrace the whole world," we must learn to live together. That is the dangerous thought of the 'Yellow Peril', as my classmates called me," he concluded...
...work was generally referred to as his third symphony, though it is probably his fifth. (Says Stravinsky: "Don't ask me. I hate the numbers. It is a symphony in three parts.") His first symphony, written at 25 and dedicated to his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, is no longer played. He wrote another in 1920, in memory of Debussy-a seldom played twelve-minute symphony for wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston...