Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only is Judas more superfluous than a fifth wheel on a cart, but he is an absurdity, explicable only as a manifestation of the hatred felt by Gentile Christianity against the Jewish Christians during the second century...
When he came 'back after the rest period he had a plain prose bandage on. He won the first and third games, lost the fourth and, after a heartbreaking struggle, the fifth. The sixth game of this fourth set was easy for Lacoste. And he had a lead in the seventh when Tilden started to play cannonball services. Placements boomed like round-shot. The gallery rocked and roared. Now he was off. He would keep on, he would snow the Frenchman under, he would...
...Since the original oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania, more than 68,000 oil wells have been drilled in the U. S. More than one-fifth were failures...
...week. The debaters were, of course, the representatives of the World Court Adherent Powers, who had assembled (TIME, Sept. 6) at the invitation of the League of Nations. All present expressed their good will toward the U. S. and passed the first four* reservations without notable demur. On the fifth reservation, however, the conferees became deadlocked, as had been anticipated from the day this reservation was drafted. The fifth reservation is notoriously the "joker" inserted by the Senate to give the U. S. absolute power to prohibit the World Court from handing down "an advisory opinion touching any dispute...
Earl Carroll's Vanities. The fifth and grossest of all edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, in spite of an irrelevant dash of Spanish atmosphere, presents the most authentic (but not at all unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries...