Word: eleventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvage. In Oneida, Wis., John J. Everhard, whose wife had loaded her belongings into a wheelbarrow and left him for the eleventh time, asked the Press-Gazette to "put an item in the paper...
Chugging in eleventh, but safely, came the Aston-Martin with the English novices. Said Rob Lawrie, proudly: "We let the others pass and crash. We just kept on going. Back home, I am going to have a drophead hood [convertible top] put on, then I'll take Aunt Agatha out in it. This car has got to last the family a long time...
...change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller's burial, it seemed, would have to be put off for a while; the rest of the Indians felt healthier...
...Nationalist officials made an eleventh-hour getaway from Kiangwan airfield. One of them was Mayor Chen Liang, who had just announced the beginning of "Health Week" in Shanghai. Quipped the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury the next day, before the Communists took it over: "The mayor certainly was sincere about it. He found out what seemed best for his health and promptly did it." By dusk, the western and southern outskirts of the city were bare of troops...
...Sphinx Club will become Harvard's eleventh final club as soon as it changes its name...