Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dr. Symeonidis, 39, had something special to get excited about. The National Cancer Institute announced that he had found a clue to the cause of eclampsia, a disease occurring in pregnancy that causes one-fifth of all maternal deaths in the U.S. Its victims have high blood pressure and damaged kidneys, often die in convulsions...
...Antonio, a woman fined $25 for drunkenness indignantly denied the charge: all she had had, she averred, was a fifth of whisky and eight beers...
...Along Fifth Avenue...
...Israelis argue that the Arab refugees would create a potential fifth column in their young state. They point with alarm to thinly veiled references in Arab newspapers to the "coming second round" (i.e., of the Palestine war). The Israeli offer to admit some of the refugees provided they can get the Gaza strip from Egypt is generally regarded as an evasion, because no one seriously expects Egypt to cede the Gaza strip unless Israel, in return, gives up part of the Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become...
...start, President de Bretteville plans to make the Spreckels Sugar Co., which is already the biggest beet-sugar produce? (286,705,000 lbs. in 1948) in California and the fifth biggest in the U.S.,* more efficient. Altogether he is spending $1,800,000 on new equipment, plans to obtain new capital for expansion by making Spreckels Companies a public corporation and issuing stock...