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Word: eighths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposition, probation, and injury make a seventh or eighth place the best that Coach Bob Pickett's varsity wrestlers can hope for in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships at Penn State today and tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Badly Weakened Wrestling Squad Enters Easterns | 3/11/1955 | See Source »

Each horse has yet to run a race of more than a mile-and the Flamingo is a mile and an eighth. Most of the smart money has already decided that Nashua has the stamina, the Boston Doge is a front runner who will fade in the last long furlong. To most of the paddock prophets it looked like a lock. "But don't forget," one of them hedged, "once, they even beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Drama at Flamingo Lake | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Blast furnaces glowed and roared in the steel centers of Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Chicago last week as the steel industry jacked its operating rate to 88.2%, the eighth consecutive weekly boost. According to this key barometer of the economy, the outlook has seldom been better. Last week's scheduled output of 2,129,000 tons was the best in two years, within striking distance of the alltime high of 2,324,000 set the week of March 23. 1953. With order backlogs soaring, the trade magazine Iron Age said: "If the rate of incoming business holds, raw steel output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Firing Up | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Also competing were varsity captain Ebbe Dane, Fred Churchill, and Ash Hallett. Dane and Churchill finished eighth and tenth respectively in Class C, while Hallett was disqualified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Churchill Takes Third Place In Class C Skiing Competition | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Pennsylvania captured only two firsts and one second as the varsity swimming team easily swept to its eighth straight victory, 64 to 20, in Philadelphia Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Down Weak Penn Team In Eighth Victory | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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