Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood held small charm for her-"It looks, it feels, as if it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peep-show man." But movies were there to be tried, so she tried them. Perhaps the most intriguing of her films was the only one she ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences...
Still going strong, the varsity cuffed around a new Yale pitcher for two more runs, in the sixth. Martin's double, a walk to John Davis, and singles by Chet Boulris and Rodgers produced these essentially meaningless tallies...
Although a fifth still describe themselves as "conservative" in temperament, over half prefer the safe and evasive category of "moderate liberal." In addition, a sixth of the students appear willing to admit that they remain "politically indifferent." Neither Hoffa nor the "missile-gap" can arouse them from their lethargy. Apparently ignoring the dictum that "knowledge is power," these Political Indifferents fervently hope that "ignorance is bliss...
Much less successful at Harvard are Newsweek (a sixth read it), David Lawrence's conservative U.S. News and World Report (an eighth), Max Ascol's Reporter (a tenth). Only a twentieth read either the liberal Nation or New Republic, and a mere handful look at Bill Buckley's infant National Review...
...usual, law, medicine, and business were the top trio of intended careers, with a sixth, an eighth, and an eleventh in these categories, respectively. Education followed with a seventeenth, a twenty-seventh picked engineering, and the same number chose journalism...