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Word: fifth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight-old crew finals, Eliot slid home ahead of Winthrop and Adams. Kirkland headed the non-finalists in front of Dunster and Lowell who were tied for fifth, with Leverett and Dudley bringing up the rear...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Eliot House Carries Off Intramural Sports Cup | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

...WATV went on the air, giving the New York area its fourth television station. Buffalo's first station took to the air, and Boston is scheduled to start this week. On June 15 the New York Daily News will open its stationWPIX (New York City's fifth). A mile away, on the roof of the Hotel Pierre, ABC will start transmitting over station WJZ-TV (New York City's sixth) in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

After the shaft begins operating, 30 months from now, Kelley expects to get out another 2,500,000,000 pounds of copper. Getting the ore, at one-fifth the cost of conventional methods, Kelley hopes to do it cheaply enough to keep going in Butte for at least 35 years, no matter what the ups & downs of the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Comeback | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Godin and Chuck Roche held off the Nassan forces while their mates scored five runs. Two in the third--the result of John Caulfield's single which brought Myles Huntington and Cliff Crosby in--and one in the fifth (incurred when Chip Gannon ran all the way from second on a long Coulson blast to right field) looked like enough until the seventh inning. Then Godin gave out, and Roche came in to try his luck on the mound. Princeton proceeded to score three runs, but Roche remained in the lineup in the ninth just long enough to drive...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

...Cinco de Mayo-the Fifth of May-and all Mexico was celebrating the victory won 86 years ago when General Zaragoza's troops drove the glittering legions of Emperor Napoleon III down the slopes of Puebla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cinco de Mayo | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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