Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shining. King George, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales sat in a box. Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl...
...fifth and deciding set, with game score 5-to-4 against him, Tilden asked Umpire Muhr to watch his service closely. He then served four successive aces and soon brought the game score 9-to-8 in his favor. After that, spectators debated whether Tilden wilted or whether Lacoste became invincible, but the fact remained that Lacoste took three straight games and the championship. The match score...
...first of the fifth Ellison watched Armistead's long triple sail over his head, and then was unable to reach Oliver's Texas Leaguer that dropped in front of him, scoring Armistead...
...Fifth That such representatives shall have never received pecuniary assistance toward their support and maintenance as athletes during any portion of their university career or any period prior there...
...requires no special knowledge to appreciate the truth of this. Anyone who lisa followed a political campaign in the newspapers realizes it. In the recent mayoralty contest in Chicago the issue was King George the Fifth of England--a topic which affected Chicago not at all, of which the voters knew nothing and on which the victorious candidate could not conceivably take any action. Yet he swept into office for that reason...