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Word: 24th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson captain covered the 3-mile cross-country course in 51 minutes, eight minutes behind the winner, Frank Hurt of Middlebury. Poindexter followed Churchill closely across the finish line in the time of 52:30. Robbins was 24th in 54:09, and Curt Beebe 27th in 55:35. Conditions were fast with windblown powder covering a packed base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Churchill Leads Varsity Ski Team During Holiday Intercollegiate Meet | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...Washington Arch. New York University's Hall of Fame) of the day. and one of its leading quail hunters. One gaudy night, while Evelyn's mother was conveniently out of town. White blackly enticed the girl-or so she later testified -to a certain address on West 24th Street, which was entered through a secret door at the rear of a toy shop;. There, she said, he showed her into a room swathed in sound-stifling draperies from ceiling to floor, and containing a canopied bed with mirrors set in the top and sides. He offered her champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Reider ran the course in 26 minutes and 16 seconds, half a minute behind Eckel. The other Crimson runners, Ralph Perry, Al Wills, Dave McLean, and Ken Wilson, came in 11th, 14th, 24th, and 31st respectively. Don French, captain of the harriers, dropped out after the third mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Beats Crimson for Varsity Runners' First Loss | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...before he could crown him with the traditional laurel wreath. Hamamura's time: 2:18.22, just 29 seconds better than Yamada's record. Third, back of Pulkkinen, Nick Costes clocked the fastest American time (2:19.57) since Vic Dyrgall finished second in 1952. Way back in 24th place was U.S. Veteran John Kelley, 47, who earned the laurel wreath twice (1935 and 1945), in the days before the foreigners took over the Patriots' Day marathon. Since 1945, the race has been won by a Greek, two Koreans, a Canadian, a Swede, a Guatemalan, a Finn and three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motley Marathon | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...last week more than 70 wells were already in operation or being drilled in Crawford's new field. Crawford himself, though he had ten producing wells and was drilling four more, had more important things to do than stay around Huntington Beach. On his 24th birthday, a month ago, he brought in a gusher seven miles to the north, is now developing what he thinks is an even bigger field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Boom That Jack Built | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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