Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are 500 producing wells-150 of them Turner's-producing 19,000 bbl. of oil a day. Green County oil leases, sold last spring for $1 a farm plus one-eighth of the oil, now are bringing $2,500 to $3,000 an acre, plus a quarter of the oil for the farmer...
...what about these students--the eighth of the junior and sophomore classes applying to the new House? What are their reasons, and how do these reasons relate to Quincy as a new House and Quincy as a different, a unique House...
...fifth-grade geography class, ten-year-old John Mele wrote in his notebook: "Where along the Atlantic Coastal Plain can oysters be found?" In a seventh-grade history class, twelve-year-old Andrea Gagliardo was studying "The Missionaries in Florida and Louisiana." In an eighth-grade classroom, a boy had written in his spelling book: SKELETON, AMBULANCE, also "What is the definition of fiery...
...completion date for the College's eighth House approaches, the question of room rents has gradually forced itself on the Administration. Unfortunately, the unusual nature of Quincy House has tended to magnify the problem, owing to the fact that the rooms in the new House are almost identical in every structural aspect...
Marek Hlasko, whose bitter novel The Eighth Day of the Week was a product of the temporary Polish thaw, has chosen voluntary exile, and he will not be welcomed back should he return. Polish Communist intellectuals, who have been spared some austerities under the Gomulka regime, are dismayed at the implications of the Pasternak case. "For many of them," the New York Times said, "what counted most was the belief that the whole episode would wind up in a much tougher attitude toward intellectuals...