Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadly speaking, the topics included in the agenda of the Conference may be divided into six groups: First, the organization problems of the Pan-American Union; second, questions of an inter-American judicial nature; third, problems of communication; fourth, intellectual cooperation; fifth, economic problems, and sixth, social problems...
Cried he: "The spectacle of the franc at a fifth of its pre-War value is as pitiful a sight as the War-maimed poilus one encounters in the streets! . . . Salvation lies in a new currency, in severing all ties with the past! Already Belgium, Austria, Hungary and Russia have struck new coins† .... The best reason for reviving the ecu is that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even...
...fifth of the series of Sanders Theatre concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. M. Maurice Ravel, the French composer, will lead the orchestra tonight as guest conductor. Miss Lisa Roma will be the soloist at tonight's performance...
...this order devotees of beauty and of Paris rejoiced. The Champs Elysées ("Elysian Fields") are at one end an oblong park of magnificent foliage and at the other a street recently as exclusively residential as was upper Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Most of the signs which glared upon the Elysian Fields up to last week advertised such products-not-sold-on-the-premises as the Austrian tooth preparation Odol and were blatantly objectionable...
Advertisers ruefully recalled that only small electric signs may be displayed on Fifth Avenue, and that onetime President William Howard Taft signed an executive order on Sept. 8, 1911 which makes the frontage of the Panama Canal one of the few U. S. regions where electric signs may not be legally erected...