Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born 39 years ago on a 280-acre farm in Platte County, Neb., was eleven and in the seventh grade in 1928 when he was the lone pupil in District 42 School in Burrows Township. With the undivided attention of Teach er Elizabeth Liebig, he studied seventh and eighth-grade lessons simultaneously. In between, he argued politics with Teacher Liebig: she was for Prohibition and against Al Smith; he was for Smith, against Prohibition...
...exercise while she breakfasted or lunched. His own meals were hearty ones: steak, prime ribs of beef, roast partridge. Attendants brought his lunch to Mamie's room one day, his breakfast the next. He was allowed to roam about whenever he wanted to on the hospital's eighth floor, permitted out of bed any time except during his two-hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent device that raised and lowered his back and legs or gently oscillated. After 15-minute morning huddles with Sherman Adams...
...than at any time since the spring of 1953. In the field of consumer credit, the trend of loans was still up (to $34,293,000,000), but the climb was leveling out. Installment debt rose in September to a new high (of $26,699,000,000) for the eighth straight month, but the increase was the smallest since April and well below the average $660 million for the last four months...
Shad Tubman and Charlton MacVeagh led the Crimson soccer team to a 5-0 triumph over Lowell Tech yesterday at Lowell. Tubman scored twice, while MacVeagh tallied once and assisted on two other goals to give the varsity its third win in a row and eighth in ten games...
Riddled with injuries, colds, and hour exams, the Crimson soccer team will seek its eighth victory of the year against Lowell Technical Institute at 2:30 p.m. today in Lowell...