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Word: fourth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windy West Point on Friday pitcher Timmy Clifford notched his fourth victory as his five-hit, seven-strikeout stint was enough to fell Army, 10-3. Strong defensive play by Singleton and Steve Joyce, a triple by Jenkins, and a ninth-inning home run by Bingham highlighted the victory...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Dartmouth Whips Slumping Crimson Stickmen, 13-7 | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...entered in the same field, finished sixth, a scant three seconds out of third place and only one out of fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Stuns Radcliffe Heavies; J.V. Tops Wisco | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...varsity dispatched Penn with a run at the 1000-meter mark. They had been fourth after a slow start, while Penn opened a lead on Navy and Princeton...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Harvard Smokes 'Em in the Sprints | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...finish Radcliffe still held a one-seat lead, though the winner was not clear until the official announcement minutes later. Williams was a distant third, ten seconds behind Radcliffe's 5:23.6, while Notre Dame was fourth in the seven-boat field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Stuns Radcliffe Heavies; J.V. Tops Wisco | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...literary Establishment has never considered Anthony Trollope a great novelist, like such near contemporaries as Tolstoy, Flaubert or Balzac. Noted at least partly for his prodigious output -47 novels, five travel books, and innumerable articles-he has never been ranked higher than third or fourth among his peers in Victorian England, after Dickens, George Eliot and probably Thackeray. Readers, however, have been kinder, and Trollope has always enjoyed an enthusiastic following. During World War II, for example, he ranked first in the esteem of English readers, and Londoners took him down to the Tubes to help them forget the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time for a Long, Lazy Trollope Ride | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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