Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge, Mass., Yale over Harvard, 51-24, for Yale's 71st consecutive dual-meet swimming victory...
...boss's 71st birthday, the Soviet press did its usual dutiful job of singing the praises of Joseph Stalin. He was, the papers said, "The Greatest Scientist of Our Time." At least one highway and still another city were renamed in his honor. On the practical side, an East German steelworks dedicated a new oven to him. There was also the not-so-admiring group in West Germany which sent a little gift: a wreath of barbed wire...
Last week Albania's eager-beaver Communist Party put itself at the head of the next anniversary parade. It sent a message of "gratitude and boundless love to Stalin on the occasion of his 71st birthday...
...wife of a Cardiff workingman, 41-year-old, pink-sweatered Florence Poynter, mother of two, brought cheers from 4,000 representatives at the Conservative Party's 71st annual conference at Blackpool last week. Her husband, said Mrs. Poynter, earned only ?4 17s. 2d. (about $13.50) weekly, so that she had to leave her children and go out scrubbing. She had been better off before the war when her husband had brought home only ?2 10s. By thus dramatically emphasizing the rise in the cost of living and affirming her faith in the Conservative Party, now in opposition, Mrs. Poynter...
...Yong Ham of Korea won the annual BAA marathon yesterday in 2:32:39; John Lafferty was the first American, at 2:39:52; and David L. Smith '51 was the first Harvard finisher, somewhere around 4:20. Smith was 71st...