Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neville fought through Guantanamo in 1898; through the Boxer uprising of 1900; through the Philippine insurrection of 1901; through Verdun and Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...
...giving the new company a capital of only about a quarter-billion. But Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., directed by Ralph Jonas, is connected with Manufacturers Trust Co., presided over by Nathan Jonas; and Manufacturers Trust, through a recent merger (TIME, Dec. 31), is Manhattan's fifth largest trust company, with $531,000,000 resources. The Jonas brothers also have holdings in. Home Insurance Co., another large product of recent merging...
...Saturday afternoon in the Living Room of the Union, the Harvard Freshman chess team, playing together for the first time, defeated decisively a team from Exeter. Led by Captain Ordway Southard '32, the Freshmen won three matches and lost but one, the fifth encounter developing into a draw...
...formation of this Advisory Committee grew out of a resolution adopted by the Fifth Assembly of the League of Nations on September 22, 1924. In this resolution the Council of the League was requested to convene a committee of experts representing the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world, which should have the duty, without trespassing in any way upon the official initiative which may have been taken by particular states...
...gentle rustle of satisfaction animated the starched silks of the ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...