Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighteen hundred dollars of the total represent savings on the desserts, cereals, and bread, voted by University students last spring, while the remaining $10,200 came from the drive for contributions by the Student Council Food Relief Committee headed by Richard A. Campbell...
...Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later). It was the worst accident in transatlantic flying history...
...world will surely be In Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Three...
...latest of scientists' attempts to improve on the aged wood and fine Italian hand of the old violin makers. It was fashioned by Caltech's seismologist Dr. Hugo Benioff, who gave up violin playing as a boy because he couldn't stand the noise he made. Eighteen years ago, when he was designing seismographs to measure earthquakes, he decided that there wasn't much difference between a seismograph and a fiddle "except one deals with slow movements and the other with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted a conventional fingerboard and electrified bridge...
...states,* they noted, have Jim Crow laws. Eighteen states specifically forbid segregation. Said Justice Reed, of Kentucky: segregation imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce. In other words, it is too much trouble to have bus riders changing seats as buses roll from one state to another. The Justices held that segregation on interstate buses is illegal...