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Word: fives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dropping from 11,757 students in the University last year to the present total of 11,105, Harvard follows closely the five to ten percent decline in the larger public institutions, including all Ivy League schools. However, when the small schools are considered, the nation's college and universities show a 2.3 percent increase over enrollment figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Schools Show Decline In Enrollment | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

Glittering Cibola. Coronado, the second son of a Spanish nobleman, had no money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Tufts got away to a four-point lead with two baskets early in the game, but Harvard took the lead in the middle of the first period. After that, the game was never close, the Crimson expanding a five-point half-time lead into a runaway in the closing minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Quintet Easily Sets Down Tufts In Opener, 60-36 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson led, 5 to 0, at the end of the first period. After ten minutes of sloppy play, Harvard scored the first two of its five goals with in half a minute when good passes were popped in the Joe Kittredge and sophomore Carl Timpson of the third line...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Skaters Defeat MIT in Opener, 10-5 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Five charities will benefit from Radcliffe's Combined Charities Drive starting today and running through Friday. Students will be asked to contribute to one or all of the listed organizations; the Boston Community Fund. Children's Medical Center, Kobe College is Japan, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Student, and the World Student Service Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Charities Open Intensive Drive Tonight | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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