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Word: fifths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Government fifth largest field offers 66 out of 135 honors candidates; History and Literature ninth is size has 55 from 113 or 48.6 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Still Leads English as Popular Concentration Field | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...victories over Yale stand out as the high lights of the last four years of Horween coached football at Harvard. A fifth year of service here has been made even more attractive by the bright prospect of a third win against the Blue. A complete survey of Horween's record since 1926 reveals 17 victories, 13 defeats and two ties; Harvard has scored 508 points to its opponents 322. The new regime started inauspiciously with only three victories out of eight starts. In 1927 the new ideas had taken hold as was shown by the record of four victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...Crimson football squad will elect its 1930 captain today, in a meeting at which it is expected, definite announcement will be made as to whether Arnold Horween '21 will return for his fifth year as mentor of the Harvard eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEXT YEAR'S CAPTAIN WILL BE CHOSEN BY SQUAD TODAY | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Fifth son of the late Earl of Crawford, tall Sir Ronald is high in chivalry, can match order for order with the present British Ambassador at Washington, courtly Sir Esme Howard. Both are Knights Commander of the Bath, both are Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, both have an imposing row of subsidiary ribbons to blazon their lapels. Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ambassador Ronald | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...forcing system. So had the Cavendish Club team, which came in second, and so had the Knickerbocker Club team, which was third. Of all the teams in the room, only the one on which Mr. Vanderbilt played used his convention. He finished tied with another team in fifth place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forcing v. Vanderbilting | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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