Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear a little more than usual this year from the Pierian Sodality. The first Cambridge performance will be a joint concert with the Radcliffe Orchestra in early November, which will be followed closely by a Bach and Handel program including the fifth Brandenburg Concerto. This latter concert so early in the season represents a change in policy as two Cambridge performances are planned for this year rather than the customary...
...where she is usually mistaken for her step-daughter-in-law, the present Marchioness of Reading. The Viceroy told her the best way to understand the American people was to attend their national political conventions. She went to both in 1936, then went coast-to-coasting in a fifth-hand Buick. To understand the Americans a little better she stopped at tourist homes at night and helped with the dishes next morning. WVS takes all her time now on a 9:45-till-anytime schedule. Her London house is closed and when she sleeps she sleeps in a West...
...nostrils of the dauntless Mayor of Warsaw, "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, as all Poles were calling him, stank last week the corpses of men and horses rotting in almost every street of Europe's fifth largest capital. More than 500 separate fires were blazing in Warsaw, covering the city with a choking lid of smoke and flame. The reservoirs were blasted and dry, the power plants smashed, and Nazi bombers, after destroying the Jewish Home for Crippled Children, had methodically blown to bloody smithereens all Warsaw hospitals, crammed with wounded...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Jacqueline Cochran, wife of Tycoon Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.), broke her own record for the loo-kilometer airplane course, set a new mark of 286,418 m. p. h. In Manhattan, Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, ex-wife of Tycoon Odium, celebrated her fifth year as smart president of smart Bonwit Teller's store...
Disclosed by a series of observations of artificial earthquakes set off by dynamite explosions, the new wave-form is the fifth fundamental type known to science. The four previously known forms have been recognized for forty years. Dr. Leet said his new wave was not predicted in earthquake theory...