Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shawnee, Okla., fourth, fifth and sixth-graders were asked what they thought of "crime" comics. The moppets conceded (184 to 111) that the bang-bang strips are harmful, but admitted (297 to 57) that they liked to read them. They were firmly convinced, however (20 to 1) that "smaller children'' shouldn't be allowed to look...
...days later he squared off against ex-Champion Don Budge. Again Big Jake was carried to five sets. Budge's famous backhand was never better, but at 33, his stamina was not so good. Despite all the tea and sugar he consumed, Budge collapsed in the fifth set, won only one point...
...front views, as well as the other views, are of God's own children. There cannot be any obscenity in God's own handiwork." ¶ New York City celebrated its Golden Jubilee ( 50th anniversary of the consolidation of its five boroughs) with a six-hour parade down Fifth Avenue. There were 55,000 marchers, 100 bands, over a million spectators...
...times in 109 violin recitals. Statistician Perkins found violinists more venturesome than pianists in programming contemporary music, but noted that both outdid orchestras in repeating war horses. The hardest-worked symphony of the season was a surprise: it was neither Beethoven's nor Tchaikovsky's Fifth, but Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (K.551), the "Jupiter...
...Worms Have It. When Dale Carnegie discovered that worry was "one of the biggest problems of ... adults," he hotfooted it off to "New York's great public library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street." To his horror, he found 189 books listed under WORMS, only 22 under WORRY. Obedient to one of his favorite maxims ("Cooperate with the Inevitable"), Carnegie thereupon went to work from scratch. He read everything that "philosophers of all ages have said about worry." He read biographies "from Confucius to Churchill." He interviewed everyone from General Omar Bradley to Dorothy Dix. He spent seven years...