Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week was as eager as any other 26-year-old on his third night mission. Four years out of West Point, he had been in Korea only three weeks. His name was 1st Lieut. James Van Fleet Jr., and he was the son of the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea...
...Yardlings picked up two runs in the first and eighth innings and scored single counters in the fifth and ninth frames. The last run came after MacDonald opened the inning with the longest hit of the day, a triple. He scored on winning pitcher Bill Chauncey's fly to right...
Unofficial calculations set the upper-half dividing line for all classes somewhere in group IV. Seniors, to be in the upper half, had to place in the top one eighth of the group; juniors, top three fifths; sophomores, upper seven-tenths; and freshmen, top nine-tenths. Rank within a group is determined by plus and minus grades...
...separate chapter in the annals of the institution is the monumental work done by Miss Annle J. Cannon in compiling the Henry Draper Catalogue. She worked through the terms of both Pickering and Shapley. Her classification of all the stars in the sky down to the eighth magnitude was one of the largest investigations ever conducted in this or any other observatory...
Dean Bender this weekend will ask one-eighth of the undergraduate body to cooperate in a nation-wide college poll evaluating the impact of today's conditions on the role of higher education. Questionnaires will be distributed Wednesday...