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Word: 308th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honorary degrees were awarded to thirteen men and women this morning, at the University's 308th Commencement. Only one foreign nation was represented in the presentations, and degrees went to six educators, a pair of religious leaders, and two top-level diplomats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cushing, Dillon, Horton, Murphy, Bush, Geyl Gain Honorary Degrees at Commencement | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Drooping, knife-edge wings raised to flight, black exhaust streaming from six jet engines, the Strategic Air Command's B-47 No. 876 hurtled into the air from the runway at Hunter Air Force Base at Savannah one afternoon last week. Along with most of SAC's 308th Bomb Wing, No. 876 was headed off on a highly classified flight-Operation Snow Flurry-to one of the four SAC fields in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Mars Bluff | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...drive, named A Program for Harvard College at its inception two years ago, is to be completed by June 11, 1959--Harvard's 308th Commencement...

Author: By June Commencement, | Title: Bull Market to Help Harvard Fund Drive | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...each other critically to see just how well they executed their "box steps" and such advanced maneuvers as the "triple twinkle" and the "conversation corkscrew." The guests were almost all students of Arthur Murray, most successful dancing teacher in the world. The occasion: opening night of Murray's 308th and most lavish dance studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Dancing in a Hurry | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Their Heads!" At 8 that morning, the withdrawing French Legionnaires had an answer to that question. Hidden in the jungle at the road's edge and concealed in the ruins of an old Chinese fort on a nearby hilltop, the 308th was watching the approach of the French column. Now, over a 2,000-yard strip of the road, they let the French have it. Lobbed hand grenades turned trucks into burning wrecks, while rifle and machine-gun fire blasted down the Legionnaires. Then the Viet Minh leaped into the road with daggers and machetes. The French column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Ambuscade | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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