Word: 33rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponent only 7 ft. from the pin on his drive, Maxwell wedged his ball from a trap toward the cup, 40 ft. away. It dribbled in for a birdie 2. Gagliardi missed his seven-footer, went one down, trailed Billy all the way home. After he calmly halved the 33rd hole to win, 4 and 3, the new champion (and youngest since 1924 when Bobby Jones, also 22, won the Amateur) tugged at his old white cap and said: "I must be dreaming...
...Oxford knows exactly what Henry Birkhead had in mind when he endowed a chair of poetry (established 1708) with the proviso that its occupant be elected every five years by convocation, i.e., popular vote. It is the only chair of its kind at Oxford or Cambridge. As the 33rd incumbent, C. Day Lewis will be one of the few practicing poets ever to occupy it. In the past, historians and theologians predominated. His most distinguished predecessor, Matthew Arnold, held the post two terms...
Muscovites may have been slightly surprised last week to see Marshal Semen Budenny canter across the cobbles of Red Square on a chestnut stallion. He took the place of honor on the 33rd anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik revolution...
...eligible for deferment if they were going to enter or were in college. At the end of the first year in college all men below the top 50 percent of their class would be subject to draft. In third year the student would have to stay in the top 33rd percentile; the senior must maintain a record above the 25th percentile to avoid service...
Rose took the lead back at the 33rd lap, but Johnnie Parsons figured that his little four-cylinder engine was hot and solid enough now to take all he could give it. Two laps later he had the lead again. By this time, hitting a roaring 165 m.p.h. in the straightaways, skidding and spinning into the turns, the 33-car field was thoroughly scrambled...