Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gospel was taken from the eighth chapter of John, first verse, in which Jesus rescues from the Pharisees the woman taken in adultery, saying: "He that is without sin among you, let him first east a stone...
...Henry Kaiser, who had proclaimed that only a year ago he was the fourth biggest automaker, dropped down to eighth and was saved from shutting up shop only by a $44.4 million RFC loan...
Finally, after two failures at examinations, he got into the military college at Sandhurst. He passed out proudly, eighth in a class of 150. Sent to Bangalore, in southern India, Churchill became a brilliant polo player, and discovered books-Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay, Schopenhauer; he made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that...