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Word: nineteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night in New York the Crimson bowed to Ivy League leader Columbia, 78 to 55, as the Lions rolled up their nineteenth consecutive victory over the losers. Playing without Chet Forte, the home team still had little trouble, as Ted Dwyer was high scorer with 21 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania and Columbia Fives Overwhelm Crimson in Ivy Games | 2/23/1956 | See Source »

...Lions still lead the Ivy League with a 6-3 record, but since Chet Forte was declared scholastically ineligible last week they have failed to win. Yet the presence of Frank Thomas and Ted Dwyer should still be enough to assure the home team of its nineteenth consecutive victory over the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lions and Quakers Favored to Top Crimson Quintet in Next Two Days | 2/21/1956 | See Source »

...late risers, there is Government 106b, the history of political thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. The course given by returning Professor Carl Friedrich is held in Sever 11 from 2:00 till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need a Course: II | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

...revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above ground is often more valuable that the minerals beneath, so a mining company may sell lumber at great prices and never dig a shaft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Timber-Lane | 1/20/1956 | See Source »

...rather be expelled by him than be praised by anyone else," a nineteenth century undergraduate once commented. His testament, sincere if overstated, was a tribute to the greatness of the late LeBarron Russell Briggs '75, confidant of "Copey" and "Kitty" in the days of "too much teaching and too little studying" in Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Late Dean Briggs: A 1934 Chat | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

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