Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delusions. Specialization had its defenders. Harvard's Professor of Education Phillip Rulon argued that scientists, by & large, were well educated and civically conscious. Purdue's Engineering Dean Andrey Potter contended that engineering schools today respected the humanities. Purdue's average engineering student, he said, spends four-fifths of his time on his specialty, and one-fifth on the humanities, i.e., the rest of the universe. Even this slim ration is considerably cut by many schools...
...fifth part of the time he was away from Washington, traveling more than 90,000 miles at home and overseas. In Paris he told European leaders, assembled to blueprint economic cooperation: "Make no small plans, for they have no magic to stir the imagination of men." He preached the gospel of productivity, the continuous planning of improved production techniques. He found that European industrialists had a bias against new methods, just as U.S. producers had a bias in favor of them. In America's cities he told his hearers of ECA's success in stopping Communism, of what...
...whisky are sold for every one bottle of straight (compared with a prewar ratio of one-for-one). Distillers will have to do more than cut blend prices; they will have to lure drinkers back to straight whisky, probably by bringing bonded straight whisky prices (U.S. average: $6.90 a fifth) more in line with good blends (about...
Although two Yale men gained the two best total times in the meet, Harvard was able to win by placing men third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth out of the ten best times in a field of 21 entries...
Harvard skiers who placed in the first ten were: third, Larrie Griffin; fourth, captain elect Rod Nordblom; fifth, captain Graham Taylor; seventh, Gordy Abbott; and eighth, Don Justus...