Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons of their own the large orchestras neglect the works of these two composers, and because of this neglect, the opportunity of hearing the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto played by a competent orchestra and harpsichordist should not be undervalued...
Main terms of the settlement: A board of two corporation executives, two national union officers will handle appeals from the shops, by unwritten understanding may call in a fifth arbiter when necessary. The corporation won a continued open shop, Chrysler will continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler...
...much money and power: that and boredom, the emptiness of going through the same old triumphs. Dick Knight began to act in a way that no longer amused anybody. He threw his weight around, wrecked his friends' apartments, kicked the windows out of a taxicab, got arrested on Fifth Avenue...
...about film. But last fortnight London's Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. S. R. showed Londoners that the Soviet Government had been pioneering in film records. At the Academy Movie Theatre 5,000 feet of Soviet musical film were unreeled, reproducing Shostakovich's entire Fifth Symphony, a Song of Jubilation by 40-year-old Soviet Composer Alexander Veprik, a scattering of shorter compositions...
Speedy Dan Dacey of Dartmouth led the guards by a comfortable margin, but Jim Dern of Yale nosed out Lou Young, Dacey's running mate, by only one vote. Yale might have been voted a fifth place in the person of center Bill Stack, but since he was unable to play against Harvard. Penn's Frick gets the nod over Alger of Princeton for the pivot...