Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parmelee explained that Mongolism may occur in any family-that parents are not to blame. Studies indicate that injuries of unknown origin during prenatal life-most likely near the eighth week of pregnancy-may be the cause...
...Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later, "but I stepped back just to show the crowd I had some sportsmanship...
President Pusey took this week what appeared to be another step towards the realization of the long-considered eighth House at Harvard. He announced the establishment of an alumni committee to consider certain fiscal and financial problems of the University...
...expected that the committee will concern itself mainly with raising funds for an eighth House, which Pusey has called for many times in addresses to various alumni bodies...
...phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they die from a swift and general collapse of the body's metabolic processes...