Word: fiftieth
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...tube is a small "source chamber" containing nitrogen gas. When this is heated by a furnace, the nitrogen molecules pick up kinetic energy and zigzag through the chamber at great speed. Those that happen to be shooting in the right direction pass through a hole one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter that leads to the evacuated tube...
Before the first Yale batsman faces Harvard this afternoon 5000 men will march, or cavort about Soldiers Field. They are members of all the classes holding reunions: some are here for their third-year reunion, some for their sixth, some for their fiftieth. One might assume that such a parade is at least as important as the athletic contest it precedes. Indeed, it should be. It is a homecoming celebration...
...would welcome the whole parade, not just '25--the 25th is always adequately welcomed anyway. So we welcome them all: the reunions of the third, the sixth, the tenth, and every fifth year thereafter--and the fiftieth, and the seventy-fifth...
Phillips Brooks House will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary today. Nearly 200 alumni as well as current members and associates of the organization are expected to participate in the religious service, tea, and special dinner which will mark half a century of service to the college and the community...
...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...