Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a time, before the 24th anniversary of woman suffrage, when Radcliffe participated only in news and photographic board work. But reviewers, humorists, and analysts are scarce and the CRIMSON still publishes six days a week...
...pennant races boiled to a climax, major-league records melted in the heat. In Milwaukee, rooters for the third-place Braves smashed their own National League attendance record of 1,826,397, set last year. In Boston, aging Ted Williams, 35, walloped his 24th home run of the season, the 361st of his career, and tied the lifetime total of old Rival Joe DiMaggio. In Cincinnati. Gil Hodges raised his runs-batted-in total to 100, became the only active major leaguer to turn the trick for six consecutive years...
London's Daily Express predicted that the highlight of Princess Margaret's 24th-birthday party, an intimate royal affair at Balmoral Castle, would be an announcement of her engagement to the Honorable Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 27, heir to a barony and a multimillion-dollar chemical fortune. With gossipists all agog, the Express's guess proved a total fizzle. Arriving at Balmoral, young...
...Attlee and Mr. Bevan are not likely to get a close look at Mao's now enormous army. But they might find time to glance at the People's Daily leading article of July 24th, which emphasised that modern armed forces could not be built up without heavy industries, and to reflect on the wisdom of meeting all Peking's demands for British heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between...
Vogel has had little experience in the field of hydroelectric power, but he has built a distinguished career in river control. After graduating 24th in his class ('24) at West Point, he studied engineering at the University of California and at Berlin's Technical University, got his doctorate in Berlin in 1929. The next year he was selected to design and construct the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station at Vicksburg, Miss. Vogel did some of the most important work of his life at Vicksburg, on his knees with a grapefruit knife in his hand, digging out the first scale...