Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed. When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...
...pair of singles, sandwiching a sacrifice, produced the deciding Holy Cross rally in the eighth, after the Crusaders had tied the game, 5-all, in the sixth. Bob Kessler, the third Crimson hurler, was charged with the defeat...
...bagger, Massa's long triple to right center, and Jack Stephen's first of a pair of run-scoring singles. The Crusaders added another in the fourth, and two more in the sixth, on Bernstoein's wildness. With one out and a man on third base in the eighth, Stephens lined a sharp single to left, for the winning...
John Davis has been catching and batting eighth. "He's a fine backstop, and when he fires down to second, the pitcher has to hit the dirt" remarked Samborski...
...spring as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival . . . Each day. as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday." Then, in a different mood, he confesses: "Now I am in the decline of my eighth decade and live so much more in the people, the books, the works of art, the landscape than in my own skin, that of self . . . little is left over. A complete life may be one ending...