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Word: eighteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier this season at Penehurst, N.C., in a practice match during spring vacation and defeated them in four ball play, 31 1/2 to 7 1/2. In four ball, the teams play each other individually, counting one point for match play on each nine holes and another for the whole eighteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Golfers Oppose Williams Today, U. of Mass., H.C. Friday | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...model town, but would not give his workers the right to bargain collectively. An A.F.L. strike for union recognition in 1934 cost two lives, saw the strikers stone and dent the Kohler plant's front door, brought in the National Guard, ended with the union defeated (see cut). Eighteen years later labor attacked again, and this time breached the porcelain-hard curtain: the U.A.W. won an NLRB election, recognition as the employees' bargaining agent and a contract which the U.A.W. called "inferior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unhappy Birthday | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...From eight New York City banks, eighteen Southern banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Financing Dixon-Yates | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Eighteen million Americans have seen Harry Truman in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATISTICS: Lobster? Deuteronomy? | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...directive gives the military thirty days in which to expand the number of firms to which it gives supply contracts. This is, of course, a direct change of the purchasing policy that netted General Motors a $1.7 billion increase during the Administration's first eighteen months. What hurts one's faith in Secretary Wilson are the attempts being made to square the new directive with his former policy. With the possibility of a Democratic Congress investigating the defense purchasing practices, it seemed that what might be good for General Motors was of very doubtful benefit to the Republican Administration. Something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's Ways | 12/10/1954 | See Source »

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