Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore, out of his much juggling, Mr. Loree makes money for his D. & H.-the most notable instance being last year when, frustrated in his Mississippi-to-Atlantic "fifth trunk system," he suddenly and to the vexation of the New York Central, B. & 0. and Van Sweringen group sold the D. & H. interest in the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash to the Pennsylvania at a profit of some...
...Confidential Guide to College Courses, continued from yesterday, is concluded in this issue of the CRIMSON. This is the fifth consecutive group of student criticisms since the inception of the Guide in 1925, and is the most complete list ever published by the CRIMSON...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
...past for its histrionic effect, suddenly became an actuality, frightening and consequential. The gallery, which had been applauding Doeg, changed sides and clapped for Tilden. Doeg, like all the younger players, was so surprised at being really ahead of Tilden that he started double-faulting, lost the fourth and fifth sets...
...today's issue of the CRIMSON will be found the fifth annual fall confidential guide to undergraduate courses. It necessarily leaves much to be desired in the line of appreciative criticism. But that it is a help to bewildered Freshmen in choosing their schedules is a fact so generally recognized that the CRIMSON feels thoroughly justified in practing it despite its shortcomings and injustices. The history of the guide leaves but little doubt that in the field of instruction the student is more inclined to accept the judgement of his confreres than of his elders...