Word: eighth
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...TiME is perfect. It hits exactly where Dr. Flesch says it should. Here is the score: average sentence length, 19 words; average syllables per 100 words, 149.7. This means that TIME can be read by students in the eighth and ninth grades . . . and understood easily by 83% of the adults in the linked States...
Dudley's second-place squad held on by trouncing Winthrop, 50 to 33, behind the fine playmaking of Joe Hennessey. It was the Commuters' eighth win against three losses...
Last Thursday General Robert Eichelberger, who commands our occupation forces in Japan, suggested that we start thinking about rearming the Japanese against what he called the "Communist Menace." Eichelberger said that his Eighth Army had destroyed Japan's war potential and successfully "democratized" the country; that Japan must have an army...to defend her shores...
Noor, a stretch driver from way back, was flying at the far turn. At the head of the homestretch, he collared Calumet's pace-setting filly Two Lea-at the eighth pole he pulled away. Citation, closing well under his burden of 132 Ibs., led the Calumet varsity as Two Lea and Ponder carried the devil-red & blue silks across the finish line in formation...
...Stop It!" For seven rounds, the fast-stepping Texan fought rings around his opponent, swarthy George Small of Brooklyn. Roach was so far ahead on points that he could not help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...