Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased undergraduate body. The House system, dividing the college living quarters into self-sufficient units, makes things considerably simpler here. New Houses can be added without diluting the advantages of the old ones. The Program calls for three new Houses, one of them to be completed by 1959. This eighth House will be used to siphon off the overcrowding from the present Houses, but the two additional ones can be devoted primarily to new students...
...Mild-mannered, high-strung West Pointer Anderson led the England-based wartime 9th Bomber Command, showed worried high brass how to use the stepchild B-26 Martin Marauder medium bomber as an effective tactical bomber. After top Pentagon staff jobs, he went back to command, led SAC's Eighth Air Force and later the Fifth Air Force in Korea...
...price of clothing went down a bit, but just about everything else, from food to laundry soap, went up. And so that restless thermometer of inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' retail price index, crept higher again in April. It was the eighth monthly rise in a row, bringing the index to a record high of 119.3 (the 1947-49 average = 100). The new mark was .4 above the March figure and a notable 4.7 above early 1956, when the index, after three steady years, started edging upward. Forecast for May: higher...
...Pittsburgh, Willie Mays ran his consecutive game hitting streak to 19 with an eighth inning double, then scored the winning run a few minutes later as the New York Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 tonight...
...long career but also served as a farewell party for the yellow building on Plympton Street next to Leverett House, which the Clinic has occupied ever since its founding in 1927. Sometime next year, the Clinic will have to make way for the housewreckers clearing the way for the eighth House...