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Word: eighteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they did get to the top of Lenana Peak, more than 16,000 ft. high. There they planted an Italian flag, which they had managed to conceal throughout their internment. Then came the grueling descent, with the sick man a burden and with an almost complete lack of food. Eighteen days after they walked out, they staggered back into the P.W. camp. A humane British commander limited punishment to seven days behind bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Expression in Kenya | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...kiss is first prize in the traditional pedal race from Harvard to Wellesley. Eighteen grueling miles will be furiously covered by cyclists eagerly viewing for the grand prize. It is expected that the time that an automobile takes to make the trip (40 minutes) will be cut nearly in half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiss to Be Reward of Champ Of 18-Mile Bicycle Contest | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

...Nash was not always concerned with juggling the elements and comforting confused students. Eighteen years ago he came to Harvard from New York City as a mandolin virtuoso resolved to concentrate in English. A year with English I convinced Nash that composition and literature were not for him, so he tried Chemistry. Here he found his field, and he graduated summa cum laude...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: The Sorcerer's Apprentice | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

...formed, and it was later-declared that the Department would take over its direction. Mr. Hamel's attempts to bring the meeting to order so that discussion of the issues could take place were frustrated, largely by the faculty representative at the meeting. Thereupon Mr. Hamel, Mr. Kerno, and eighteen others, left the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH POLITICS | 3/13/1953 | See Source »

...Design. A new dean appointed a few years attar I took office soon introduced new professors and a totally new outlook. This radical departure from traditional architectural and architectural instruction had first to maintain itself against heavy conservative pressures from outside. But before long others followed our lead; what eighteen years ago was a startling novelty is now accepted as basic doctrine in all architectural schools in the United state...

Author: By James B. Conant, | Title: The President's Concluding Report: A Summing-Up and a Glance Ahead | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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