Word: 117th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aintree, England, an eight-year-old English gelding named Oxo, at 8 to 1, won the 117th running of the famed Grand National Steeplechase. Only four of the 34 starters finished the rugged course...
...Crimson captured twelfth, with 352. Dyke Benjamin, coming on stronger toward the finish was forty-third, but no one else finished in the top hundred. Willie Thompson was 103rd, Dave Donaldson 117th, Will Julian 118th, and EdMartin 138th in a field...
Fifty MIG-15s bore down on a flight of U.N. fighter bombers near the Yalu; up streaked four U.S. F-86 Sabre jets to meet them. Flying the lead Sabre was Captain "Manuel Fernandez Jr., a 28-year-old Miamian on his 117th combat mission (already 17 missions over the standard 100; he wants to fly 150 in all). Fernandez got his sights on a MIG, started firing from 1,200 ft. away. Later he reported matter of factly: "Large pieces started falling off him, and fire broke out in his tailpipe section. He fell over on the left wing...
Discovery of a new hormone brought Dr. Carroll M. Williams, assistant professor of Zoology, a $1,000 award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its 117th annual meeting in Cleveland last week. Dr. Williams discovered the hormone, vital to life processes, which may be behind abnormal body growths in such diseases as cancer...