Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first year; by last year, sales had shot up to $10 million, and the company expects to gross between $15 million and $20 million in 1954. Welbilt Stove last year put an electric rotisserie in one of its gas ranges and sold 25,000, one eighth of its total business...
...favorite--role of Gary Cooper, he is quite at home on the bridge of his handy little ship. Wind whistles past his high cheekbones and salt spray lashes up to be-white his nautical brow as his first command is towed home by a Sancho Panza-type tug. His eighth failure to complete a test run has again resulted in burst boilers. The tug flashes a signal, and after the scant minutes his singal officer takes to decipher the more code, Cooper hurls back the answer, "No"--he would not prefer the cover of night to skulk into port...
...proceeded to put together the tightest-disciplined assortment of cutthroats and idealists in the country, half a million fanatics organized into twelve-man cells called "families" reaching into every wadi in Egypt. Objective of the Ihkwan el Muslimin: expel the foreigners, return Egypt to the simple brotherhood of primitive, eighth-century Islam. The Ihkwan battle-cry: "We will knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British...
...days a week. Its entrance hall is always acrawl with teen-agers in woolen practice tights, knitting, gossiping, giggling between sessions. Many of them take lessons every day (cost: some $450 a year). After their third year, the girls put on their first toe slippers; after their seventh or eighth, the most talented pupils are ready for positions in the company...
...rest of the top ten is composed of Notre Dame, Oklahoma City, Holy Cross, New England's only representative, which dropped from sixth to eighth, Minnesota, and George Washington, in that order...