Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provisions of the bill are so framed that ultimately every man in the Air Service will be a flyer, that at least a fifth of the pilots shall be enlisted men, that there will be an equitable promotion list for air officers, that there will be some eight instead of three flying officers on the General Staff (composed of 93 officers), that the Chief of the Air Service must be an actual flying officer...
...University second baseman died on the paths when Burns rolled out, second to first. Fons showed his first sings of weakening in this frame and it appeared as if the Crimson hitters had him on the down path. Barbee retired the Crusaders in their half of the fifth with three straight strikeouts. The University hurler set the two leaders of the Holy Cross batting order down with eightpitched balls. In their half of the same inning, the Crimson attack chased one more run across the plate to lead the visitors for the first time. Jones led off with a single...
...John Ringling" on a slip of paper and attached the slip to a painting by Emile van Marcke, showing masses of sturdy cattle in a meadow. Again and again through the afternoon on the second day of the sale of the paintings and furnishings of the Astor residence, 840 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, the name of Mr. Ringling was repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many of them, paying $1,750 for Ferdinand Roybet's "The Connoisseurs", $1,350 for a picture...
Another speaker at the Bankers' Club gathering-met to discuss a music festival to be held this month in Madison Square Garden to raise a fifth of the five millions needed to build the Yeshivah- was Adolph Lewisohn, one of the most intelligent and effective workers on human relationships in the U. S. He referred to the Yeshivah as "the salvation of Judaism," where Jews could acquire a college education in Jewish surroundings and without breaking the Sabbath and other holy days. He said that his own grandsons had been excluded "by one of the East's largest...
...wealth of Cornelius I clung to the family through the generations, but Vanderbilt skill and dominance seems to have thinned. Here begins the story of Cornelius IV, fifth in the line of primogeniture. A chubby-featured boy with crisp curly hair, some thought they could discern in him an underlying physical frailty. He went to St. Paul's school with other sons of wealth. He got his higher education at Harstrom's Tutoring School. He went to France during the War in the Ambulance Service and was gassed, decorated...