Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio's Boss Teamster William Presser, accused of using his union job to exercise a racketeer's control of the coin-vending machine business, ducked most questions by taking the Fifth Amendment. Reminded, after investigation, that the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and Cleveland's Joint Teamster Council 41 both voted to award him $20,000 apiece if he was "severed" from the union, Presser replied: "I'll tell you the truth if you let me get out from under the oath...
Walls, bridges, pavements throughout France last week were emblazoned with the challenging words out and non. With the voting on Premier Charles de Gaulle's proposed constitution just days away, the nation seemed to be drifting resignedly toward its rebirth as the Fifth Republic...
That suave soul John Mason Brown last spring was heard to say "at least half of Harvard's undergraduates will admit reluctantly that they write poems." Identity, whose editor James Manchester Robinson is not a Fifth Avenue preacher as you might expect but is, rather, a vigorous undergraduate about the Square, promises give light to Harvard's reluctant poets in their dark corners or wherever they...
Dean Kerby-Miller emphasized the academic achievements of the past year when she noted that 57 per cent of this year's sophomores, juniors and seniors were on the Dean's List, and 53 percent of the Class of '58 graduated with honors, one-fifth of them with Magnas or Summas...
Defense was definitely the Crimson's strong point. The Tufts backfield made practically no sizeable gains through or around the line, and scored only in the fifth period, which was essentially a separate contest between the rival third teams...