Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your further information, the new site for the Temple Emanu-El at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 65th St. was sold, not by Vincent Astor as you reported, but by Benjamin Winter, who bought the famous Astor residence last spring. He also is the present owner of the historic W. K. Vanderbilt mansion at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave., described in your same issue...
...independence of their business. They do not wish to have meddling on the part of the government. They are showing a very commendable skill in organizing themselves to transact their own business through cooperative marketing, which will this year turn over about $2,500,000,000, or nearly one-fifth of the total agricultural business. The Department of Agriculture should be strengthened in order to be able to respond when these marketing associations want help...
...these allotments four-fifths were paid from the proceeds of German external loans, and one-fifth from German railway earnings...
...added to the year as a series of holidays, each feast to be named after a great man-the first after Jesus Christ, the second after Columbus, the third after George Stephenson (part inventor of the locomotive), the fourth after Robert Fulton (perfecter of a paddle-wheel steamboat), the fifth after Henry Ford...
...most characteristic portion is the Prophets' Play which was based on a sermon which had been attributed to Saint Augustine since the fifth century. In this sermon St. Augustine represents nine Hebrew prophets and three Gentiles Nebuchadnezzar, Virgil and a Sibyl as reasoning with the Jews in an effort to persuade them that Jesus was the Messiah. In the play Isaiah, Daniel, the Sibyl and Aaron in turn speak their prophecies and then intone a chant...