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Word: eighths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallwey played erratically in beating Tom Kehler, 17-16, 15-9, 4-15, 12-15, 15-4. Fourth man Fred Vinton topped Jim Jennings, 6-15, 15-18, 15-11, 15-7. At seven, Charlie Poletti beat Bardyl Tirana, 18-15, 15-6, 14-15, 15-2, and in eighth position Wally Stimson rallied to down Bob Seabring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Varsity Crushes Tigers | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...making under its Marxist leader. Since De Gaulle's wartime days as the Man of Brazzaville, when the colonies rallied to his cause, France had been taking a new interest in her southern empire. While, before the war. the whole of French Africa got only one-eighth of what France poured into her other overseas territories, it has since received more than $2 billion. Of that, $79 million has gone to Guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUINEA: Vive I' lndependance! | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Gallwey won at third singles, 15-10, 9-15, 15-11, 17-15; Pete Lund topped Amherst captain Tony Hazen, 15-11, 15-7, 15-11, in the fourth position, and John Davis, Charlie Poletti and Wally Stimpson, at sixth, eighth and ninth singles respectively, all won 3-0 matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squash Team Wins, 8-1 | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

Time Barrier. The money he got from his West German-made movie, The Eighth Day of the Week, and from the sale of his books spilled from his pockets in expensive living and in generous loans. He had an affair of the heart with pretty Actress Sonja Ziemann, who had starred in his picture. But he said: "At first one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost." How long, someone asked, does it take to pass the time barrier? Hlasko answered cynically: "Five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Casualty | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Gervais, France, Penny Pitou of Gilford, N.H., competing against some of Europe's leading women skiers, scored an eighth in the slalom, then barreled down the 1.6-mile slope through a thick fog to win the downhill race in 2 min. 6.34 sec. -two full seconds faster than her nearest rival, and enough to give her first place in the overall combined scoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Americans | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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