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Word: fives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost weight. But he took the goading silently and performed the duties of his office until the day eight weeks ago when he finally retired. Five days later he was in the hospital-he had collapsed, mentally and physically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patriot's Reward | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Long-suffering Federal Judge Harold R. Medina spoke up as soon as the prosecutor sat down: the Government had presented such a strong prima facie case that he would hear only limited argument on defense motions. He added that an hour would probably be ample. The five defense attorneys scrambled to their feet and went into an outraged act which would have done credit to a pond full of Donald Ducks. They danced, shouted and demanded a week's time to prepare briefs. One attorney made 13 separate motions. Defendant Eugene Dennis (who is acting as his own attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hassle at Halftime | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Early one spring morning in 1945, the Rev. Archie Mitchell and his 26-year-old wife rounded up five of their Sunday-school class, drove into the mountains near Bly, Ore. for a day's fishing. Luck was bad at first and Mitchell walked back for the car. Returning, he saw the rest of the party gathered in a semicircle, curiously examining a mysterious object they had discovered in the woods. The kids had stumbled upon one of the 9,000 balloon bombs launched from Japan against the U.S. West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Death in the Spring | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...April, 1948, President Klapper resigned, and the scene was set for the latest--and biggest--campus at Queens College. The Board of Higher Education chose a five member nominating committee under the chairmanship of Henry Schultz to propose Klapper's successor. In the meantime, Dean Kiely continued to set in Klapper's place...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, David E. Lilienthal jr., and John G. Simon, S | Title: 'Radical' Students Face Pressures on Campus | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...Yale match is the marathon of Ivy tennis matches, for instead of the usual six singles and three doubles, the two teams will play ten singles and five doubles. As a result much will depend on the ability of the green lower echelon men to win their matches...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Tennis Team Opposes Yale Tomorrow in Season Finale | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

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