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Word: eighth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fastest miler in the world, but it demonstrated conclusively that he is also the most consistent. Only 18 times in foot-racing history has a man run a mile under 4:10- the dividing line between milers and super milers. Superman Cunningham did it last week for the eighth time. Track experts predicted that Cunningham will do a 4:03 mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fastest Mile | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Friday March 11. At Agassiz House, Radcliffe, the New England Association of Teachers of English will open their thirty-eighth annual meeting with a discussion on the subject, "English and Thinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION TO HOLD CONFERENCE | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...Stahleymen will be aiming for their eighth victory of the season. The encounter is their last before tackling the Yale Freshmen Saturday. Crimson starters will be Lubchansky and McDonald, forwards, Peabody center, and James and Simpson, guards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Faces Dean Academy | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...rule: each round-lot short sale must be made at a price above the last sale-a minimum increase of one-eighth of a point a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC Suspicions | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan last Sunday, the venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie installed its eighth rector, Rev. Charles Albert William Brocklebank, 33, lately of Christ Church in Easton, Md., called to succeed Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie (TIME, Dec. 13). For Episcopalians who wondered if Mr. Brocklebank would dabble in heterodox ritual, as did voluble, mystical Dr. Guthrie, the new rector's pre-installation statements were tactfully soothing. Said he: "The contributions of Dr. Guthrie were so unique and so utterly dependent upon his own magnificent personality and breadth of knowledge that it would be folly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tact | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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