Word: fortieth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several Moscow sources claim that Russia will shoot a new and larger Sputnik into an orbit around the earth to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution...
...direction in which the satellite is fired (getting it aloft is known as Project Vanguard) will set it so that it passes over the earth every 100 minutes in rings which would not exceed the fortieth parallel either north or south. Thus it would go no further north than Philadelphia, although it could easily be seen from Cambridge under good observing conditions...
...block the free elective system. Lowell in 1916 was attacked for the presence on the Faculty of pro-German professors. Conant's mail was constantly enlivened by letters such as that received in 1935 from Alexander Lincoln, Jr. '32, who pointed out that "My Class this year celebrated its fortieth anniversary and an overwhelming majority of its members...are utterly opposed to the New Deal and all its work." Lincoln then drew the logical conclusion...
This policy looked as if it might prove dangerous as sloppy tackling let the Barbarians through for their first try in the fortieth minute...
Five Crimson cross-country skiers ran a slushy eight mile race at Jackson, N.H., yesterday to gain twentieth, thirty-fifth, thirty-eighth and fortieth place out of a field of 43 racers...