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Word: eighths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity ski team finished eighth out of ten in the Middlebury Carnival and Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships held at Middlebury, Vt., on Friday and Saturday. This placement in the tournament pushed the team out of the senior division of the EISA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Finish Eighth In Middlebury Meet | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the first U.S. cities to add fluorine to its water supply, celebrated the experiment's tenth anniversary with a look at the results. Among them:1) 30% fewer kindergarten children have decayed teeth, 2) first-graders have 75% fewer cavities, 3) eighth-graders have lost 50% fewer teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Yardling hockey team seeks its eighth straight victory this afternoon against St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H. Triumph is by no means assured, since the freshmen have shown a tendency to play the same caliber of hockey as their opponents. Just before exams they had a tough time beating comparatively weak Belmont Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Fencing, Track, Hockey, Basketball Teams Compete Today | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

...class at the Graduate School of Design has proposed a solution to the University's overcrowding problem, by replacing the tenements behind Dunster House with an eighth House composed of three modern dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architects Plan Expansion Without Modern Vulgarity | 1/27/1955 | See Source »

...century and a quarter when it served as the President's House. Until 1725, lack of decent presidential quarters hampered Massachusetts-Bay in its search for able College Presidents. This was finally brought home to the General Court and thus, when the Reverend Benjamin Wadsworth became the College's eighth Praeses, that body not only voted a pay raise, but "further to encourage Mr. Wadsworth cheerfully to go through the momentous affairs of his office," it also granted one thousand pounds to build him a "handsome dwellinghouse, barn, and outhouses...

Author: By Samurl B. Potter, | Title: Wadsworth House | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

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