Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard freestyle: Won by Irwin (Rutgers); second, Broadbent (Yale); third, Hill (Cornell); fourth, Kanakanui (Navy); fifth, Shook (Yale); sixth, Leonard (M.I.T.), Winning time...
Saint-Gaudens' major works are landmarks spread out over the outdoors for all to see. The equestrian Sherman on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Chicago Lincoln, Boston's Shaw Memorial, and the memorial figure of grief in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, beneath which Henry Adams now lies buried with his wife, all show Saint-Gaudens' size. Critics are apt to regard his art, like Rodin's, as more pictorial than sculptural-it looks modeled rather than molded, and seems to hold some of the softness of clay. But it is art which exerts...
...Fifth Day. At the Hradcany, attendants rolled out the red carpet (literally). Premier Gottwald called to present the new members of his cabinet to the President. Said Gottwald: "I request you to accept my assurance that we are truly grateful for the fact that you have aided this victory of the people and of democracy." President Benes still wore the garments of diplomatic dignity-morning coat and striped trousers. Said he: "You want to conduct affairs of state in the new way. . . . For you and the nation I wish that this way may prove a happy...
...Lent. On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a woman and a little girl were stopped by the traffic at a cross street. On the opposite curb stood a young man with an Ash Wednesday mark on his forehead. "Look," said the little girl. "Mustn't point," said the woman. "But mother," asked the little girl, "why has he got that black mark on his forehead?" "Hush," said her mother. "It's something they do in church, I think...
...Union his reception was cool. But soon his classes were among the most crowded in the seminary. He moved from class to class surrounded by disputatious students, who soon called him "Reinie." In 1939, Niebuhr became the fifth American* to be invited to deliver the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University. Niebuhr drew the biggest crowds in Gifford history, later published the lectures as The Nature and Destiny...