Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson Yacht Club finished eighth out of a field of 12 in Schell Trophy competition over the weekend. The Trophy Race, which is the fall season's most important two-crew event for New England, was won by M.I.T., who edged out Navy, the defending champion...
Bill Morris, who a year ago captained the Harvard freshmen to victory, overcame last week's virus attack to finish sixth, four seconds behind Beck's 25:47. Princeton's Bill Mather and Al Kitchell were seventh and eighth, followed by Yale's Henry Wight...
...water) rescued many from the rooftop-dotted waters of the Humber and Don Rivers. But the drowned and killed totaled at least 66, and damage in Ontario was estimated at $100 million. By the time cold currents over Hudson Bay finally put an ice pack on Tourist Hazel, the eighth hurricane of the season had blown up into the year's worst, and the autumn storm season itself was the worst in a decade...
...Shostakovich has been up and down the ladder of official Soviet approval. In 1936 his opera-Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was considered "neurotic" (its heroine committed murder out of boredom rather than in the interests of social progress) and was banished from Moscow. During the war his Seventh and Eighth Symphonies were, in effect, official Soviet masterpieces, although non-Soviet ears found them pretty thin stuff. But the Ninth got him into hot water with the party's Central Committee in 1948 (it "smelled strongly of the spirit of modern bourgeois music...
...other men who placed for the Crimson were Dave McLean, sixth: Phil Williams seventh; and Paul Beck eighth. Bill Morris and Bob Holmes also crossed the line before the green's next runner...