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Word: fifth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite roaster-hot weather, occasional showers, and a Dudley team which not only showed up but played good ball, Eliot's softball Mastodons lumbered to their fifth consecutive win, a 5 to 0 decision over the Commuters yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Softball Squad Shuts Out Dudley, 5-0 | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

...everywhere; in the dust-streaked tractors clanking through the spring plowing. He read of it in the plans for a 6-billion-electron-volt atom-smasher at the University of California (see SCIENCE). He heard it in the farmer's talk of a bumper wheat crop-the fifth bumper crop in a miraculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: What Is an American? | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

What is the most popular classical music? Eight years ago Manhattan's radio station WQXR (which plays no jazz) polled its listeners, found Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 the favorites. Listeners now think less of Tchaikovsky's dog-eared concerto, but Beethoven is more popular than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beethoven, Two to One | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Married. Craig Rice, 39, tireless manufacturer of farcical whodunits for radio (Murder and Mr. Malone), cinema (The Falcon in Danger) and lending library (Home Sweet Homicide); and Henry W. De Mott, 28, fledgling scriptwriter; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Wentworth Institute let the Freshman nine have two runs in the first inning yesterday merely to make the game interesting--for the visitors added seven tallies to the three they had registered in the first and won going away, 10 to 2. It was the Yardlings' fifth straight setback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Baseball | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

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