Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presidential Agent (Viking; $3) is the fifth volume of Author Sinclair's vast panel of novels on modern life (1,500,000 words). In it, his hero, idealist Lanny Budd, talks over his doubts and problems with his good friend, Franklin Roosevelt...
Whereupon Maynard Krueger promptly nominated and the 229 delegates unanimously named Norman Thomas to head their ticket for the fifth consecutive time. Candidate Thomas, a real draftee, immediately got off an acceptance speech over the Blue Network: "If we persist along the road on which the Roosevelt Administration has planted its feet, we shall be hurled into a third world war incomparably more dangerous for us than that which we now endure...
Said Alexander's Fifth Army commander, Lieut. General Mark Clark: "One of Kesselring's two armies will never fight again." It was about all he had time to say. He was in charge of the pursuit north from Rome. On his right, British General Sir Oliver Leese pressed forward with his polyglot Eighth. He, too, was trying for the great breakthrough, the disorganization that can be brought even to the best of troops...
...Lewisham, Mrs. Edith Robinson, 32, had quadruplets, and the news caused scarcely a ripple. Normally the chances are 600,000-to-1. But this was the fifth set born in Britain in a year, the third set born to wives of servicemen, the second set to wives of R.A.F...
...unadorned, gives the child elementary equipment needed to do first-year work without delays. The first year includes subjects which most schools put off until later: history (famous stories, biographies, national holidays), nature study, picture study (famous paintings). Second-year pupils get geography, science (animals without backbones). In the fifth year comes physics out of a text (What Makes the Wheels Go Round) by a Calvert teacher, Lieut. Colonel Edward G. Huey, who is now in England...