Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indoors, and even then has chafed at the weather. This time he hardly seemed to care: each morning he asked Hagerty for the weather forecasts, grinned and mock-shivered at the answer (Thomasville temperatures were in the 20s and 30s) returned contentedly to the firqside. Not until his eighth day in Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting. He was so gruff with newsmen who came out to see him ("It's really something when you have to make this a news event to write about") that they wrote waspishly of his carelessness with his 20-gauge...
Harry Byrd's pay-as-you-go philosophy was personal as well as political; from boyhood, he paid as he went. Although he belonged to the eighth generation of one of Virginia's first families,* its fortunes were depleted when, at 15, he took over his father's down-and-out Winchester Star, worked part-time as a telephone operator to buy newsprint-which he paid for on a day-to-day basis. The paper prospered and, with its earnings, Byrd leased an apple orchard. He now owns about 7,000 acres and is the world...
...eighth House will be named "Quincy House," the Corporation voted yesterday. The name commemorates Josiah Quincy, fifteenth President of the University...
Felt declared that among the most pressing needs of the athletic department are reconstruction of badly irregular surfaces on the intramural playing fields, and renovation of the tennis courts. He said that the addition of the eighth House will create a need for expansion of playing areas...
...Crimson will send to Hanover "the strongest downhill and slalom teams in the history of Harvard," according to Arkley. Both he and Stephenson were confident that Harvard would better last year's poor eighth place finish...