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Word: fifthly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted (64 to 9) for the fifth time in six years a resolution to amend the Constitution eliminating short sessions of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...finished fifth in the quarter-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanford's Third | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Bassett '31, diminutive Sophomore, will resume his centre field and lead-off position while J. D. Dudley '31 will replace S. L. Batchelder '31 behind the bat. Dudley's work during the contests earlier in the spring was of high calibre, giving him a batting average of .280, the fifth best on the team, and the reasons for Coach Mitchell's benching him for so long are a mystery. His return should materially bolster up the nine's offensive power, while Bassett seems due to emerge from his mid-season batting slump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODE ISLAND NINE ENGAGES CRIMSON THIS AFTERNOON | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

...freshman at Yale in the fall of 1888, football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly saw, was the strapping physique to crash through any resistance to victory. Last week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident of the election results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Yale's Pudge | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Died. Archibald Philip Primrose, Fifth Earl of Rosebery, 82, of Durdans, Epsom, England; at Durdans. His 17-year-old boasts were: he would marry an heiress, win the Derby, become Prime Minister of England. He accomplished all three: married Hannah, eldest daughter of late great Baron Meyer de Rothschild; won the Derby thrice; was Liberal Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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