Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four continents of the world there was bitter sorrow last week over War. But in the fifth, the carrot-shaped continent, there was frank rejoicing...
...spent most of the $125,000 so far appropriated to his committee, he announced he would ask for $100,000 at the next regular session of Congress. His awed fellows in the House had talked seriously of letting him have up to $500,000, seemed certain to vote one-fifth as much...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...year ago that Prussian aristocrat, Nazi Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, was given the highly congenial task of plucking the Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME...
Purpose of his operation is to prevent this "reverse action" of the sympathetic system, and short-circuit erratic nerve impulses rushing to the heart. After exhaustive study, and drafting of innumerable blueprints, he decided to cut through the third, fourth and fifth ribs close to the spinal column, snip free and short-circuit the four nerves of the sympathetic system (between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free...