Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most improved player on the team is Larry Sears. He was undefeated last year in the eighth and ninth positions, and has made a tremendous jump up to the number three slot this season. Barnaby is "very impressed with Larry's improvement" and points to the additional power which Sears has added to his game as being the major factor in his rise to third singles...
...Without Success." Until then, Nasser says, operations were not going badly in Sinai: "All our operations had been defensive. For us, war had not begun." His main forces, not yet engaged, planned to mount a counterattack on the seventh or eighth day. The decision to withdraw from Sinai was easier made than carried out. With Egypt's airfields under Anglo-French attack, Nasser could not give his retreating forces air cover. By the time it got back across the Suez Canal, he admitted, the main body of his armored forces had lost 30 out of about 200 Russian...
Double Boon. In Chicago, a first-grader may spend one-third of his time doing regular work, an eighth-grader three-fourths. But from kindergarten to high school, each blind child has an older "buddy" who reads to him when Braille texts are not available and serves as his guide and friend. As the years pass, the blind child becomes more and more independent-and the sighted children must be cautioned against being too protective. Says Ethel May Wright, supervisor of Chicago's program: "The blind children don't want to be different. By the time they...
...years the Cuban sugar surplus has dropped from 2,000,000 to less than 1,000,000 tons, and production has gone down in many sugar-producing countries. In a move to check the price rise, the Department of Agriculture last week increased the 1956 import quota for the eighth time this year...
Dean Kerby-Miller, who has previously been first vice-president of the organization, became the eighth woman president in the association's 71 years...