Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unrelated to the realities of post-war Italy: the beggars, the unemployment, the poverty, the ruins. Many of the rivers are still spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money they had to hold. The thousand lire note, worth about $1.75 this summer, was the size and consistency of a large piece of Kleenex...
...press row for the fiftieth year was Tom Sullivan, groundskeeper emeritus, was hasn't missed a Yale game since 1900. He was present today by courtesy of the HAA, which apparently felt that Tom was necessary even if he wasn't still caring for the infield...
Gifts came from the opposite direction as well. In 1929, Radcliffe's fiftieth jubilee anniversary, the girls at Kobe remembered the occasion with a delicate set of Japanese bells. An exchange of letters and student publications went back and forth across the Pacific. At Kobe, the English-Speaking Society kept up the student end of the sister-college relationship...
Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer who has collected over one million observations on variable stars, will celebrate his fiftieth year at Harvard with a symposium at 8:15 p.m. tonight at the College Observatory...
...regretful. "I would like to be helpful," he said; "we used to have some Communists in the plant. But now we have only one left, and I'm afraid you cannot meet him. We've given him some time off. You see, this week he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company...