Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for choosing 1957-58 as as Geophysical Year was the anticipation of great solar activity--sunspots, flares and "plages" many times the size of the earth--which occurs in roughly eleven year cycles. As long ago as 1946, scientists were looking forward to last year as another peak in the sun-spot cycle; they were amply rewarded, for both 1946-47 and 1957-58 turned in high sunspot peaks. Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, and long a specialist in solar research, agreed that the Sun cooperated beautifully during its intensive examination. In fact...
Handing Dartmouth two third-period goals within eleven seconds, the varsity sextet formally surrendered any claim to the Ivy League title last night, losing its first League home game since 1952 by a 4-3 score...
...even with the tie, the Tiger fans had good reason to rejoice. Harvard had an eleven game winning streak against Princeton going into the Saturday night contest--a string which started back...
...days of the Pharaohs. The simple Batonga tribesmen who lived in the valley for centuries had-with difficulty-been evacuated to higher ground (TIME. Dec. 15). Now it was the turn of thousands of animals, in one of the world's richest game sanctuaries, and there were only eleven men and two boats...
...each week to provide meat for the Batonga tribesmen evacuated from the lake site. The Northern Rhodesia Game Preservation and Hunting Association last week appealed to its members to devote their holidays to rescue work. It is unlikely that either the holidaying hunters from Northern Rhodesia or the exhausted eleven-man team from Southern Rhodesia can save more than a tiny fraction of the valley wildlife...