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Word: fifth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cabot is the newest and biggest dormitory; has the only elevator and the only fifth floor on the Quad and an annual jump-rope contest every spring. Whitman Hall has personalized wallpaper in the living room: dainty spiders and bugs are sketched in among the flowers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman 'Cliffedwellers Get Tips on Quad Customs | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...about to be joined by a fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pink Shoestring | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Mother's Old Putter. In the six days of match play, many a good golfer fell by the fairwayside. Skee Riegel narrowly missed defeat in the first round by a Sunday golfer "I've never heard of before," then bowed out in the third. By the fifth round, when Willie Turnesa met Marvin ("Bud") Ward, they were the only ex-titleholders left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Ten Years | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Tito & the Executioner | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles, Charlie Chaplin, who will be 60 in April, and fourth wife Oona, 23, were expecting their third child this spring, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. That would make Charlie's fifth (not counting Joan Berry's daughter, whom he supports but denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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