Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain was faced with the outline of a thorny choice. If a European customs union actually came into existence and Britain stood aloof, there was every likelihood that the tariff wall thrown up by the new group would bar many British exports from European markets. (One-eighth of British exports now go to the Messina Six.) But could Britain consent to have her tariff policy toward the rest of the Commonwealth, the system of "imperial preference," tampered with by an outside authority? If Britain were forced to choose between Europe and the Commonwealth, said Harold Macmillan, "we could not hesitate...
...leadoff Dodger get to first base, and for six innings he shut the door on all but one run. The Yanks chipped away at Erskine for three runs in four innings, and Erskine departed. Home runs by Mantle and Bauer pushed the Yankee total to six. By the eighth inning Sturdivant was obviously weary. Between pitches he fidgeted like a man with a mouse down his back. In the ninth, with one Brooklyn run scored and the bases still full of Dodgers, even Casey got the jumps. But Sturdivant struck out Pinch-Hitter Randy Jackson, got Junior Gilliam...
...years, Japan, helped by 350 aid agreements with the U.S., has raised its world export position from 17th to eighth place. By the end of Japan's fiscal year next March, exports, already 50% ahead of last year in dollar .areas, are expected to hit $2.5 billion. Textiles still make up the bulk, but heavy machinery constitutes 31% of the total...
Five of the seven Masters yesterday voiced qualified approval for the Over-seers' Report recommending an eighth House without the traditional Georgian design and private baths, but they disagreed with a proposal to permit seniors to live out if they and their parents wished...
...present finaincial value of $36,000,000, of which half is in endowment. Most Tufts men are familiar with the story of how its original funds were raised. At a Universalist convention in New York the Reverend Ballou preached the sermon to open the convention on the forty-eighth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of them will they ask the more...