Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost him 11? to ride on the Fifth Avenue line, 6? on other privately owned lines, 7? on city-owned lines. On some buses he put the extra penny (or pennies) in the coin box, on some he handed it to the driver, on others he dropped it in a special tray. He paid 6? to transfer to the subway from a private line, 5? from a city line, and could not transfer to the subway at all from the Fifth Avenue line. For a transfer from a subway (10?) to a bus, he paid...
...report (based on a sampling of 25,000 households), interviewers combined both questions. A literate person is still anybody who has completed the fifth grade-a definition that will make many sixth-grade teachers and some college professors wince. But an illiterate is now a person who i) has not finished five years of school, and 2) says that he cannot read & write...
...never acquired the ballplayer's habit of chewing tobacco (he likes pistachio nuts) nor the ballplayer's trait for pinching a penny. As a result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...
...Gilfillan engineers. The first G.C.A. was a cumbersome rig, with 705 radio and cathode-ray tubes, but it worked. Gilfillan got a contract to make 112; the Navy ordered another 80 units from a competitor. Gilfillan says he hustled out his 100th unit while his competitor was on his fifth. Yet he charged the Government only a 1.1% profit (virtually a West Coast record in self-denial) and turned back $1,000,000 he had saved it in costs. Now that his wartime competitors have dropped out, Gilfillan finally has the G.C.A. field to itself...
Leon Van Bellingham will be the fifth member of the Lion backfield, with Bob Russell being called in for punting. All of these backs except Russell are seniors...