Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S. celebrates its 60th birthday, it could boast that it had made Canadian wheat the world's toughest...
...University of Chicago had lost its 60th straight Big Ten basketball game in five winless years. Last week, Chicago resigned from...
...first day's race in the order they finished the previous year (Jesus has been "Head of the River" for nine of the past twelve years). So Bull College was put near the tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed ahead-and neatly split Saint Catharine...
This week, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., publisher of a newspaper that is now considered one of the nation's half-dozen best, invited his 1,152 staff members, and about a hundred Post-Dispatch alumni, to come to his 60th birthday party (champagne, breast of chicken, speeches...
Wherever Benito Mussolini was, he passed his 60th birthday there. A deflated Mr. Toad, no longer could he swell visibly and let himself go with uplifted voice before supposedly enraptured audiences. From his ex-colleague Adolf Hitler came an anniversary gift: the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, who had written: "I teach you the Superman. . . . Thou hast made danger thy calling; therein is nothing contemptible." But from his ex-people came only bitter remembrance. Milan's Corriere della Sera called him "an aged corrupter," now as good as buried...