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Word: 24th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers can drive, push or shovel onto their lots, flood newspapers with ads offering wonderful-sounding deals that often turn out to be phony. Sample: $195 down for a 1954 Plymouth, payments of only $44 per month for 24 months. What the ads do not say is that the 24th payment is a whopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTO BOOT LEGGING: The Cause & Cure | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, Navy's Olympic Champion crew, still almost intact from its 1952 triumph at Helsinki, showed its wake to two of the East's undefeated eights, beating Pennsylvania by a length, Harvard by two, for their 24th straight victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Here the precision Navy crew, raising its beat to 38, fought off Penn's powerful surge and rowed easily to its 24th victory in front of a packed pavilion. During the body of the race Crimson timing was good and blade work clean, though the crew's high cadence killed part of its normal swing at the catch and recovery and made the oarsmen too tired for an effective final...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Navy Crew Wins 24th Race; Varsity Third | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...Slalom is unusual in that it allows alumni, as well as undergraduates of the two colleges to compete. Graham Taylor '49, the varsity coach, finished 24th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni, Varsity Skiers Beat Dartmouth in Annual Slalom | 4/21/1954 | See Source »

...Harvard last spring, he put on a scarlet waistcoat and a red, white & blue tie as just one more old grad, 25 years out. But whenever he opened his mouth, reporters jotted down notes, and wherever he went, flashbulbs flared. Nathan Pusey had just been named the 24th president of Harvard University. He was an apparent nobody, plucked out of nowhere, who had never even written a book. His classmates managed to work him into their rhymes: "Nate" was "great," and so, of course, was " '28." But the rest of Harvard had another chant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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