Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there is fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last week he celebrated "Collectivization Day" while mujiks glowered...
...Class of 1872 on its twenty-fifth anniversary gave to the College a clock for the tower in Memorial Hall. The striking of this clock was a great annoyance to Professor Shaler, who declared that he heard it every hour in the night. 'I told the Corporation,' he said, 'that it would have to choose between me and three thousand pounds of brass...
...Millers and the Davises have snatched fifth and sixth places respectively, with 39 and 38 representatives of the names. The Davises did not either rate among the most popular last year. The remaining names rank as follows: Jones, 35; Robinson, 34; Taylor, 32; and Cohen...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club will hold a dinner in commemoration of its fifth anniversary this evening at 7 o' clock at the Harvard Club of Boston. The leading speaker of the occasion will be Dr. W. S. Ladd, president of the American Alpine Club, whose topic will be "Our Own Mountains...
Boston, according to a recent statement by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, "is the most esthetic and intellectual city in the U. S." Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...