Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for two muggy days, the weather at Key West, Fla. was fine. The sky was blue, and out beyond the rustling palms, sunlight glittered on the turquoise shoals and cobalt deeps of the Gulf of Mexico. The nights were cool. But as he settled down for his eighth vacation at the lawn-bordered "Little White House," Harry Truman seemed less intent than usual on savoring the joys of sunburn and exercise...
...eighth and last of the career conferences will be held in Lowell House at 8 p.m. tonight. Colonel C. P. Summeral, professor of Military Science and Tactics, will lead the discussion on Military Careers...
...lost his job in Stalin's private secretariat. He found himself stuck in a secondary role in the Agricultural Administration. He dropped from fourth to ninth in Politburo listings (Zhdanov moved up from eighth to fourth). For his fling in ideological heresy, Malenkov was properly penitent and rueful, and on the next throw he moved forward again. In 1947, at the birth of the Cominform in Poland, Zhdanov, the party theoretician, had to share leadership with Malenkov, the party organizer...
Delivering the principal convocation speech at the inauguration of Margaret Clapp as eighth president of Wellesley College, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday said that the crisis of our age cannot be settled by a resort to arms...
Several thousand people will descend on Wellesley at 10:45 a.m. today to witness the Inauguration Exercises officially inducting Margaret Clapp as eighth president of the College. Provost Buck, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Radcliffe's President Jordan will comprise part of the delegation from 86 colleges...