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Word: fifths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least expect it. The chapter on the actual sailing across the Atlantic relates too little of the actual competition of the race. One is curious to know why for instance the "Elena" made what appears to be a "faux pas" in strategy by her sudden shift of course the fifth day out from the Ambrose lightship. The actual racing tactics of the competitors receive very little description, yet this is supposed to be a kind of official record of the race...

Author: By G. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

...fact that whereas some Congressmen represent less than that number of males and females, some represent a great many more. Notably, Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles is only one-fifth as potent as in the average district. This inequality arises from the inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...meeting on Monday night of the Directors of the Alumni Association. He was notified of his election by telephone yesterday and has accepted. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT IS CHOSEN TO LEAD ALUMNT THIS SPRING | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

Likewise on Fifth Avenue, and just one block from Black, Starr & Frost is the retail store of the Rhode Island silver-&-goldsmiths, Gorham Manufacturing Co. For almost a century Gorham silver and gold has furnished U. S. dining rooms, churches. Gorham bronze has gone into the careful details of U. S. buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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