Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighteen matches played by the visiting Crimson on Friday and Saturday, the squad was able to salvage only three, as they came out on the short end of a 6 to 3 score in the Quaker contest, and were swamped by a strong Tiger team...
...eighteen leading trading nations, Russia excepted, meet at Geneva to initiate a revival of world trade as a basis for lasting peace and prosperity, the frank, business-like atmosphere suggests that many of the very basic cleavages in attitudes may be reconciled. While the conferences deal with both a long-range issue (a charter for the proposed International Trade Organization) and a more immediate problem (the writing of new multi-lateral trade agreements), the same conflicting philosophics hamper both tasks. Fortunately America, upon whom the success of the sessions and the ultimate fortunes of the ITO and world trade rests...
Convict the Guilty. Eighteen months have elapsed since the young (28) cipher clerk, fed up with Communism, stuffed 100-odd secret documents inside his shirt and walked out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...
...also agreed last night to support the campaign for lowering the minimum voting age to eighteen years, and set up two fact-gathering committees to work on matters involving political action and University affairs...
Week before last, twelve out of eighteen of the New York Film Crities named Samuel Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives" as the best moving picture of 1946 and oscared William Wyler, it director, for the best job of movie direction of the past year. In the 1946 film field, foreign entries such as "Henry V," "Brief Encounter," "Open City," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter" far outdistanced the general run of American film productions in artistic excellence. Most U. S. films seem to suffer from a Hollywood occupational disease that can best be described as a sugary...