Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith was an unassuming man with horn-rimmed glasses and a shifty voice. When asked if Curley was moving out of the building, he took us down a back corridor, opening door after door, and saying, "Look, look in there, there are eighteen rooms and they're all empty. The only reason we're here is to take care of Mr. Curley's mail, see? But look at these rooms, empty, all empty...
...Boston without Republican support, it is inconceivable that any Republican can be elected without considerable Democratic backing. For this reason, Mr. Potter's reasoning is misleading and fallacious. It is true, as he says, that the Republicans with united effort could have gotten their five candidates among the top eighteen to qualify for the November final election to the City Council. Once nominated, however, the Republicans would have been sure to lose in November. Only 27,000 votes were needed to qualify a candidate in the recent primary but a candidate will need about half the electorate--well over...
...nine NBC endorsees all placed in the primary's first eighteen with the combined strength of 50,000 votes. If the GOP had marshalled thirty or forty percent of its minimum 75,000 votes behind its five candidates, this support plus the votes picked up in the candidates own wards would probably have been enough to put all five in the primary's top eighteen...
...Eighteen of the 171 come from foreign countries. The most represented line of business was railroading, a new wrinkle in this year's class. The average age of students is 43 1/2 though they range from...
...Eighteen of the 171 come from foreign countries. The most represented line of business was railroading, a new wrinkle in this year's class. The average age of students is 43 1/2 though they range from...