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Word: fifth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calculator, which was specifically designed for the Navy, exceeds in size and speed the machine now functioning in the Computation Building. Within a second it can multiply 7,869,438,763 by 9,321,643,868. Addition takes one-fifth of a second on the machine, which can handle 3500 numbers a minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giant Super-Brain Ready for Navy | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Nobody expects them to win. Even Halsey, with all his optimism, hopes for nothing better than a fifth in the ten team contest. But that fifth is a plenty big order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...Halsey wants fifth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Fundamentalists. In Oklahoma City, fifth-graders polled on punishment preferences voted 34 to 1 that they would rather have a spanking than a friendly talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...first girl In the second row In the third scene Of the fourth number In fifth position . . . In Igrouchka, I'm a fairy In Pétrouchka I'm a bear And in Sylphides I am something That will really curl your hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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