Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health!" cried the Union of Civil Servants, and public workers accustomed to holding second, private jobs, grumbled that the longer hours might force them to give up their government sinecures. That was fine with Frondizi, who hopes thereby to cut 1) the swollen civil service that comprises a third of the nation's workers, and 2) the government budget deficit of $108 million...
...When St. Francis Xavier and a small group of Portuguese Jesuits introduced the Japanese to Christianity in 1549, their success was striking: in only a little more than a generation there were between 300,000 and 600,000 Christians in the country, which had only a third of its present 91.6 million population. (About half a million are now Christian.) Buddhism was in decline; people were impressed by the Jesuits' European science and their surprising concern for social morality and the sanctity of human life. The success of the new religion soon convinced Japan's feudal warlords that...
...able to redeem some $16.6 billion in foreign time deposits in U.S. banks, foreign-held U.S. Government securities and similar claims. In the unlikely event all foreign claimants demanded to be paid off in gold at once, the gold backing for U.S. currency would drop to $3.7 billion, a third of the legal minimum...
Alan McClennen won the University single sculls championship yesterday over the mile distance on a rough Charles River course. He edged out Ben Bolt, third in the same race a year ago, by one-and-one-half lengths in the slow time...
Dyke Benjamin led the varsity track team to a respectable third-place finish in the Heptagonal track championships last Saturday at New Haven. Yale's powerful Bulldogs won the Heps title with 64 points, followed by Navy with 41 1/5 and the Crimson with...