Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collar delegates. Handsome, fast-talking Lawyer J. Kenneth Bradley, out for the nomination for governor, was trying to regain the party control he had o«ce held as Connecticut Republicanism's boy wonder, only to be stripped of his state chairmanship six years ago. On the eighth floor reigned the man he sought to dethrone: big Harold Mitchell, the party head. Mitchell had chosen Lodge as his candidate...
Born in northern Mississippi, the eighth of "just eleven children" of ex-slave parents, Alexander Shaw started out to be a public-school teacher, but finally followed his father and an elder brother into the ministry. At one of his first assignments, in Winchester, Va., Dr. Shaw found the second-floor ceiling of his parsonage too low for him. When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal...
...batted for Turner in eighth...
With steel mills running at better than 100% capacity for the eighth consecutive week, the wildest commodity of all was steel scrap. Top-grade scrap climbed to $46 a ton last week, a 48% advance in three months, to hit an alltime high. At week's end some big buyers dropped out of the market to wait for lower prices. But many industrial purchasing agents predicted that most metals will be high and scarce for the rest of the year. The Dow-Jones commodity futures index, which reflects traders' ideas of coming prices, pointed to still more rises...
With the appearance of Author Grey's eighth novel since his death in 1939, the mystery of where all the new books are coming from will puzzle many readers more than the maverick queen's bloody secret. Mrs. Zane Grey's answer: her in defatigable husband, who sometimes polished off a novel in two or three months of fast scribbling, was 15 to 20 manuscripts ahead of Harper's schedule. That could well mean another decade of easy readin' and hard ridin' before Zane Grey's zealous fans reach...