Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roughhouse amusement when a pair of prizefighters stumble into a Fifth Avenue establishment...
Architect Harry Allen Jacobs outlined a plan for furnishing Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, with a double-decked sidewalk, supported by imposing columns, whereby the lower sidewalk could be narrowed to give more room to traffic. On elaborate charts hung here and there, the future of London, Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, the City of Mexico and wherenot were delineated...
...These choice souls call themselves the Why-nots and hold their meetings in a barn amidst the red flare of torches. Thither I went with great hopes, and witnessed the most extraordinary manifestations of advanced thought. By special invitation, Jaipurdhi, the Indian fakir most noted for his piety and fifth, had come to address them upon the fundamental necessity of discarding all clothing for complete self-expression. With great enthusiasm the Why-nots embraced the theory on the spot, and left the fakir in a triumphal procession through the streets, furnishing much amusement to the other Satellites...
Edwards, star hurler for the Green nine, will make his fifth start of the season today. Holy Cross found him for a 6 to 1 win but the earlier spring trip of the Hanover team saw the giant ace victorious in three games...
Coach Farrell and a few members of his University track team journeyed to Philadelphia on April 24 and 25 to participate in the annual Pennsylvania relays on Franklin Field. The four mile relay team which was the Crimson's principal hope did not make an impressive showing, trailing fifth in a fairly fast field, and no individual entrants were successful...