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  • noun Abbreviations of fathom.

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  • Back then it was the fi fth-largest contract ever awarded by the CPA, amounting to almost 3 percent of the CPA Program Management Office's entire Iraq reconstruction budget.

    David Isenberg: The Olympics Will Be Protected by Aegis: Ay, There's the Rub 2010

  • True Religion Jeans faith (P) Pronunciation Key (fth) n.

    Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism 2005

  • F.fty-eight years ago, almost to the day, the new member from Michigan's F.fth District moved into his office in the Cannon Building and said his first hello to the congressman next door, John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2006 2006

  • A knife wound under the fi fth, left rib, the blade viciously jerked up into the heart.

    Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005

  • M.F. Perutz's article "The F.fth F.eedom" [NYR, October 8, 1992] contains some of the grossest distortions of the Catholic Church's teaching on human sexuality yet published.

    Sex and the Church Schwartz, Adam 1993

  • This was what I once had dreamed of -- to be seated beside Mrs.F. Rockridge Sewall in her automobile, creeping slowly along F.fth Avenue at dusk.

    The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

  • Erelong the F.fth Massachusetts Cavalry, a negro regiment under Colonel C.F. Adams, Jr., paraded through the streets, and then the Southern whites hid themselves within doors to shun the repulsive spectacle.

    Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

  • The light battalion of Colonel Charles F. Smith, now under command of Captain Edmund Kirby Smith, F.fth Infantry, moved forward, supported by a part of Cadwallader's brigade, and this was followed by a forward movement of Garland's brigade and Drum's battery.

    General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893

  • Abe, why dont you write to me this is the fi fth letter I wrote to you and I aint got any answer to any.

    Franklin County: Henry M. Erisman to His Brother, August 18, 1862 Henry M. Erisman 1862

  • Also in July, the Nationwide reported that consumer confi dence fell from 63 to 56, its fi fth straight month without a rise and its lowest reading since May last year.

    FXstreet.com 2010

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