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Word: eighteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lettering the doors of Leverett and Winthrop Houses with eighteen-inch scarlet B's and U's the vandals bedecked House squash courts with 2-foot-high characters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

Signing up today--and tomorrow from 8:30 to 1 o'clock--are 920 men directly from high school, 172 new veterans, 46 formerly admitted but never attended, and 212 returning after a leave of absence. Two-hundred-eighteen of the members of the Class of '51 will be veterans as compared to 305 in the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Reaches 311-Year Peak | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

Tough Enough. Eighteen representatives of the two trustee nations met in Seoul's Duk Soo Palace. Their surroundings seemed a continent away-Corinthian columns, mirrored doors and long French Republic draperies. On the walls flickered tiny replicas of the torch that the Statue of Liberty holds. Outside, azaleas bloomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Sin Tak | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...never rains but it pours, Harvard's Varsity lacroose team learned Saturday afternoon when, after a three game drought in which it scored only five points, it let loose an eighteen point cloudburst in defeating Tufts 18 to 3 at Medford. At the same time the Freshmen lost a 10 to 3 decision to a well-conditioned Andover team on the schoolboy's home grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wins in Track, Lacrosse Round Out Clean Sweep for Crimson Varsities | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Eighteen months after its original Boston opening, pulling into the Hub for the last week of its existence, Maurice Evans' so-called G.I. version of the great English tragedy is incomparably closer to achieving its original objective than it was when it opened in 1945. What makes the difference in this strangely improved production is the supporting cast, which has undergone a complete transformation since the opening. Gone are the foreign accents, the faltering diction, the awkward pace of the original Gertrude, Claudius, and Polonius; in their place an almost perfect supporting trio has appeared. As the queen, Doris Lloyd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

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