Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong Lord Jeff middle-of-the-line, has scored ten goals in only five games. Center forward Howie Burnett has added five more, while right inside Manse Hall has four. The Lord Jeffs are in fourth place in the League, behind Dartmouth, Trinity, and Yale. Harvard is eighth...
...concert devoted entirely to the music of Bach can be either a very inspiring or a very tedious experience. Monday night's concert at Sanders Theatre came much closer to the former. The Cambridge Collegium Musicum opened its eighth season auspiciously with spirited, authentic renditions of four comparatively unfamiliar works...
Into this situation, Matt Ridgway tossed a potent psychological bombshell. He warned the Reds that, if a cease-fire agreement was eventually reached, it would have to be based on the "reality of opposing military positions at the time"-in other words, that the present Eighth Army offensive is steadily carrying the cease-fire line farther into North Korea. Whether this alone changed the Communists' minds, or whether they merely responded to internal pressures of their own, the Red liaison officers at Panmunjom suddenly became conciliatory...
...Munch began the concert with Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Possessing neither the grandeur of the Seventh Symphony nor the sublimity of the Ninth, it has a boisterous spontaneity all its own. The orchestra, after a shaky start, played with gusto and precision, and Munch captured all the Viennese high-spirits which this piece requires...
...guns blasting at enemy installations, the U.S. destroyer Ernest G. Small (2,400 tons) hit a mine. Holed below the waterline in a forward compartment, the Small made Kure, Japan, under her own power, but eight of her crew were dead, 18 injured. She was the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to strike a Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast...