Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conciliatory steps. Most ambitious was a plan to amalgamate the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (see map). Together, the three territories would form a 475,000 sq. mi. Central African Federation, which might one day become Britain's eighth dominion...
Second-place Syracuse was far behind the Nittany Lions with 17 points, Rutgers third with 16, Lehigh fourth with 15, and Army and Columbia tied for fifth with 12 points each. Yale finished eighth with eight points, while Brown was tenth with...
Princeton's hockey team comes to the Arena tonight on exactly even terms with the Crimson sextet. At Monday's weekly hockey dinner poll the two teams finished in a tie for eighth place among Eastern college sixes. Harvard will be out to avenge its January 2-0 defeat by the Tigers, though, and on the basis of its showing in recent games, should have a slight edge. The face...
Tokyo sent Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, U.S. Eighth Army Deputy Chief of Staff, and a board of seven officers to investigate the riots. At Panmunjom, Red truce negotiator Colonel Tsai Chengwen sneered, "The massacre fully testifies to the brutal inhumanity with which your side treats our personnel." U.N. officers were convinced that the riots testified to something else: a deliberate Communist attempt to discredit the U.N. demand for voluntary repatriation of prisoners...
...number of legislatures in favor of this amendment has crept alarmingly near the number needed for a convention, lower and middle-income groups have begun a long-delayed counterattack. So far, they have convinced seven states to rescind their resolutions. Massachusetts should become the eighth. The bill to repeal the resolution, now before the Constitutional Law Committee, should be reported favorably and passed. Since no one can accurately predict future expenses, the Government should not limit its future budgets according to pre-War II needs...