Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, greying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying, changed his first name from Yau to Hiram to honor a venerable Congregational missionary, Hiram Bingham.* The University of Hawaii was tougher...
...indeed. Last year in their first season in California the San Francisco (ex-New York) Giants finished twelve games off the pace in third place, and the Los Angeles (ex-Brooklyn) Dodgers wound up 21 games behind in seventh. This year the Giants and the Dodgers are chasing a pennant-and catching customers-with all the fire they flashed back at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field...
...ingredients. After Clemens Wilmenrod, Der Fernsehkoch (The Television Cook), tells the Hausfrauen how to make it, Swiss cream is sure to be a favorite dessert-and Clemens plans to pass the word soon. The balding, Menjou-mustached, ample-jowled Fernsehkoch last week was well into his seventh year on the air, with the oldest and most popular show on West German...
...study of Latin offers two great rewards among others: in the first year the student learns to decipher dates on cornerstones, and in the seventh or eighth, if he is clever, he is able to read the Satyricon. The randy classic, which deals with a kind of conjugation untouched by grammars, has been nibbled at on the sly by headmasters and bishops; one old Etonian boasted that he had four editions and thought it "rather a gesture'' to keep his best one, bound in clerical black, on his pew at chapel...
...average worker spends far less, proportionately, on food, shelter and clothing. While he spent 80% of his entire income on these three necessities around 1900, he now spends only 57%. Clothing is no longer even one of the Big Three. The average worker's family spends a seventh of its income on transportation -mostly on the family car-only a ninth on its backs. It gets considerably more use for its money; e.g., the average scrapping age of automobiles rose from 6½ years in 1925 to 13 in 1955, largely offsetting the increase in new-car prices...