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Word: eighth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waved it for a reminder. The Dancer drove home to win by two easy lengths in the fairly good time of 1:44 1/5.* Long a heavy favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, the undefeated Dancer is scheduled to stretch his legs at a mile and an eighth this week in the $100,000 Wood Memorial. The Wood should give a much fuller answer to the question before the grandstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Debut at Three | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Weight man Bob Curran heaved the hammer over 163 feet for a first place there, while Phil Pratt captured the discus with a throw of 149 feet four and one-eighth inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rittenburg Wins Four Events as Runners Top HC | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...varsity tennis team smothered underdog Army 14 to 1 on Saturday for its eighth straight win, then took off for its first real test in eight matches at Williams-town today. Jack Barnaby's squad meets the powerful Ephmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Defeats Army As All Singles Players Win | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...flourished so well for eight years that by 1920 the Administrative Board reported that it was "in its eighth year of successful operation and . . . no longer an experiment." They felt a real need had successfully been met and suggested extension of the work...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Public Health --- The World's Welfare | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

...central Africa, squeezed between the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Mozambique, is a lung-shaped piece of land which last week was shouting lustily for air. The land has no composite name, but, come January 1954, it may well be Rhodesia, the eighth self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN RHODESIA: Dominion Wide | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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