Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision of the faculty to permit women in the dorms until eleven o'clock on Saturday night seems very unsatisfactory to me, for in granting thi concession, they somehow felt obliged to subtract another eighteen hours during the week. Many of us have come to a appreciate these afternoon hours, especially on Friday afternoons when we were able to listen to the B.S.O. Concerts which begin at two, and on Saturday, when we were not obliged to go to the football games for something...
Cronin came to Boston from Ireland at eighteen without a cent. During his 52-year career he owned and managed six different, successful restaurants. His succession of eating houses covered Cambridge from his first place on Concord Ave., in 1918, to one on Bow St., then on to Mount Auburn St., and finally to today's place on Dunster St. His brother Tom joined him in 1924 to help open their second venture...
...long, the clouds had billowed above Johannesburg; in the late afternoon lightning split a sky that was the color of an overripe plum, and the city's jagged skyline vanished behind a curtain of steel-bright rain. Eighteen miles away, a tornado struck the mile-square shantytown of Albertynsville, where 5,000 Negroes and half-castes lived in mud huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots...
...contest was officially open to "boys and girls from six to eight," and required an original drawing expressing why the entrant liked Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Eighteen-year old Berndt claims that someone else entered the contest using his name...
...eighteen Hawkins holds every Australian breast stroke record there is. He is the British Empire champion at 200 meters. At our National A.A.U. Championships held in August he took two third places. There is only one faster breast stroker in an American college today, Ohio State's senior Jerry Hollan...