Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started a scoring spurt and counted five times to Harvard's twice before the whistle blew, thus bringing the score up to 6 1-2 to 6. In the remaining chukkers, however, the clever play of the Crimson reserves asserted itself, and the game was stored away in the fifth period...
...fourth of the time treated in the first half year." This statement is not exactly clear to me, but I fear it may give rise to an erroneous impression. The subject-matter of the question was discussed in two lectures out of more than thirty, and constituted about one fifth of one reading assignment...
...save wasted hours. But he is cautious. Last week he merely tabled before the National Assembly a bill which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like...
...Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built, and it is my creation...
...Fifth, very few wets will say that they want the saloon back. Why? If the present conditions are, as they say, so much worse than they were when we had saloons, why not have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...