Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that connects West Virginia coal fields with Lake Erie ports caused a petty flurry on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Someone wanted a few shares. Others thought they knew why. They knew that Leonor Fresnel Loree had mentioned the road as a connecting link of his proposed fifth eastern trunk system. They knew that Chairman Frank E. Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain. It might be that either of these...
Today's game will be the fifth for the Freshman, who now have two victories and two defeats to their account. They defeated M. I. T. and Choate and lost to Cushing and Milton...
...first game after a sew saw battle with an 18-15 count. Bohlen turned the tables in the next game by taking the University court man into camp by a 15-16 score. Thacher took the third game, but dropped the fourth by the same count. In the fifth round he steadied down to take the game and match. The team suffered its first setback of the afternoon when Gammell swept Stewart to defeat. Oliver made up for this by defeating Gardner easily at 15-13, 15-10 and 15-12. Dupertuls will play Bright this afternoon in the final...
...handicap to the champion runner this year, and the Crimson sprinter, who has been showing more speed than ever, may flash his heels in front of the field tonight. In the 40 yard dash at the Knights of Columbus games, Miller was clocked at four and three-fifths seconds, one-fifth of a second from the world's record...
...earth, but I don't consider it worth while. I should also like to make a few remarks on Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd," but I might be tempted to make a pun. Meanwhile the dumb-looking youth next to me will be calling for his fifth blue book so that he can tell all of Gore Hall at dinner this noon how much he wrote on the English exam: It won't do him any good, of course, since every one will either fail to hear him or think that he cheated and wrote on every other...