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Word: eighth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Joe Noble, in the 157-Ib. class, will seek his eighth victory in his ninth match. His only loss this season was against Penn by a narrow 3-2 score. Heavyweight Ted Robbins' winning streak of six will probably not be threatened tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers to Oppose Amherst Team Away | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of his share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form of such Fiskal attractions as "THE DEMON CAN-CAN . . . 100 BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES . . . Contains Nothing Objectionable." Finally Fisk was probably the only colonel (of New York's 9th National Guard Regiment) and admiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Jolly Robber | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...certain degree of anarchy in this matter," Bender stated. "I don't trust any system of central authority." He emphasized that at present "we don't really have satisfactory tests even in high school, and we need better ways than we have of identifying talent early--in the eighth or ninth grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Officials Doubt Merits Of Centralized Secondary Testing | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...strafing run that killed three Mexican fishermen (TIME, Jan. 19) and caused a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Last week Ydígoras brought on a school strike at home by appointing his cousin, a hulking female transvestite who never got past the eighth grade, as Minister of Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Julia's Cousin | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...year school can be an efficient factory of learning. Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years of mathematics and almost six years of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Education Race | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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