Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth House Will Help...
Leverett House will control Mather Hall until the fall of 1960, although by September, 1959, it will be an enclave in the territory of the University's eighth House...
When the new House opens in 1959, it will have only 200 members because of the use of Mather by Leverett. Bundy said that he felt it was better for the eighth House to begin with less than its full complement of 350 students...
Biggest surprise was the sputnik's weight: 184.3 lbs. The U.S. Project Vanguard has hoped to send 21½ lbs. into space, less than one-eighth of the sputnik. Some critics cited the weight of the Russian satellite as proof that it is crude; but in satellite launching, the weight placed on the orbit is a measure of success...
Terrible-tempered Texan Tommy Bolt smoldered on a short fuse all afternoon. When the crowd cheered his missed putts he began to sputter; when they jeered a flubbed approach to the eighth green he exploded into club-throwing wrath. "It was demoralizing," Bolt complained later. "I thought these people were supposed to be sportsmen...