Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tung stood high on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, beamed down as half a million persons paraded before him in celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Communist conquest of China. There were the well-drilled children of the Young Pioneers, paratroopers, government workers with flowers in hand. Overhead roared Soviet-made jet bombers and Chinese-made jet fighters. Also on hand were goodwill delegations from Burma and Cambodia, Bulgaria's Premier Anton Yugov, and Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar...
...fifth run came in the eighth inning on a homer by Del Crandall...
Such deficiencies may well be corrected in the new building. What seems unavoidable, however, is that like Lamont and Harkness, the architecture of the eighth House will be hopelessly at odds with the character of New England in general, and Harvard in particular...
Certainly, the Eighth House has its unique potentialities. There may come a day when all members of the College will come to its walls to contemplate, with humility and compassion, those equally sincere souls who, a century ago, erected Memorial Hall upon the face of the earth and said it was good...
Since the need for more undergraduate housing space is presently the major concern of the University, this space might eventually become the location of the ninth House. President Pusey has put both an eighth and ninth House high on the building priority list. With arrangements for the eighth House complete, the University will probably attempt to obtain land, or perhaps air, for the ninth House...