Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice president in charge of sales from 1936 to 1951 (with time out for a stint as steel expert on the War Production Board), he helped push yearly sales from $99 million to $519 million. As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace...
Running on a muddy Van Cortland Park course in New York yesterday, the favored Big Red captured first, second, fourth, eighth, and twenty-first places as two sophomores, Dave Eckel and Mike Midler led the field. Pete Reider, who finished fifth, was the first Crimson runner in the five mile race...
Behind Cornell with 36 points and Harvard with 85 came Yale, Army, Navy, and Penn. Trailing further behind were Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Brown. However, Doug Brew of the eighth place Hanover team, led the field for the first three and a half miles and finished third, only 20 seconds behind Eckel...
...carloads of editors of the Daily Princetonian, feared washed away on the Merrit Parkway north of New Haven. They were headed for Cambridge with newspapers which, from their quality and content, it was learned that it was learned that it was a parody of the CRIMSON about an eighth House...
...best-known modern composers, Harris at 57 works under a comfortable grant from the Mellon educational trust, is as prolific as ever. He has extensively revised the Seventh Symphony since it was first played in Chicago in 1952, has already started his eighth (specifically designed for recording) and ninth ("On the words of Walt Whitman"). Says he: "I am trying to achieve a dynamic form, something that grows like a tree grows. This new form is something I believe America is going to produce...