Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides, what responsible man in any service talked of a "cheap and easy" blitz war? General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, had been specific on that point. "Veterans of the Eighth, the Fifteenth, the Twentieth and other historic Air Forces," he said on July 2, "know very well that there are no cheap and easy ways to win great wars." The way Congress had apportioned funds almost equally among the Navy, Army and Air Force also seemed proof that no one was counting on an "atom blitz...
Ezzard Charles knocked out Pat Valentino in 35 seconds of the eighth round is San Francisco last night, thus keeping his National Boxing Association heavyweight title...
...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
...Harvard sailing team, trailing the victorious King's Point Mariners by 29 points, finished seventh in the eighth sailing of the Danmark Trophy Regatta on the Thames River yesterday and Saturday...
...Seven of the eight courses second year students must now take are required courses; the eighth is an elective to be chosen from five specified fields...