Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jane was darker than John. Four out of ten women had brunette skins as against three out of ten men. Of the men 14.3% were golden blonds; of the women 10.6%. One-fifth of the men, one-sixth of the women had blue eyes. But twice as many women as men were redheads...
...Lord, A History of Our Savior Jesus Christ, in 1849, Charles Dickens gave the book, not to his publishers, but to his six children. When he died, the book went to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death...
...just-published sixth report of the U. S. Geographic Board, Idaho's highest mountain, Hyndman Peak (12,655 ft.), was officially christened Borah Peak in honor of the State's longtime (since 1907) Senator...
...aimed to master the intricacies of accounting, 23% ranged in academic ability between the average seventh-grader and the high school junior. To the study of electrical engineering, architecture and chemical engineering, only 20% of the Minnesota aspirants had brought high-school training. More than one-sixth had not finished grade school. Considerably less than half of the would-be advertising men, lawyers, executives had finished high school...
...term securities: $500,000,000 of 2½%. Treasury Notes maturing in 13½ months, $500,000,000 of 1½% Certificates maturing in 7½ months. It was the biggest piece of new financing ever attempted by the Treasury in time of peace, but it represented only one sixth of the new money which the Treasury expects to borrow before June...