Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shotover is a crazy old man of eighty-eight, drunken and self-confessedly futile, yet hedged about, like one of Yeats' Lear-like old men, with an almost sinister magnificence. His crews believe that "he sold himself to the devil in Zanzibar, and can divine water, spot gold, explode a cartridge in your pocket with a glance of his eye, and see the truth hidden in the heart of men." Made up with a white beard in a wretchedly unsuccessful attempt to look like G.B.S., "Mr. Evans' Captain," as A. E. Watts acutely notices in the Traveler, "is a cute...
Right wing John McIntosh tallied for the varsity after eight minutes of the second quarter, lofting a 15-yard boot just over McClintock's arms. The last two varsity points came late in the last period, against the third Tufts goalie of the day, Jim Didey. Harv Mazer scored on a pass from Nick Lamont for the fifth Crimson goal, and three minutes later Bruce Johnstone tallied on a screened shot in front of the nets...
Members of the Soviet delegation and its eight satellites left the Assembly just before the speech of T. F. Tsiang, the Nationalist Chinese ambassador...
...will twine tightly this fall--at least the Ivy League football standings. For the first time since the eight-team conference was organized three years ago--and Yale took the title with an 7-1 record--a Harvard team has the potential to defeat any of its opponents, perhaps all of them. The four teams that have the best chance for the title are the Crimson, Penn, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Here is the outlook...
...first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months of 1959 to 702 flights, compared with 467 for the same period last year...