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Word: eighth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only last month, having for the eighth time condemned the Union for its drastic racial policies, the U.N. General Assembly called on it to begin talks to put South West Africa under the U.N. The Union was piously proclaiming that it was just this kind of "interference" that was to blame for the bloody outbursts that had just been quelled in the South West Africa capital of Windhoek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...sand casting Susse employs a sand found only in the Seine basin, which becomes almost doughy when moist. It is best for highly polished surfaces. The sculpture is solidly packed with sand, which is then baked dry to make a mold. A second mold is also fashioned, roughly one-eighth inch smaller than the original mold. The molds, shaped in halves, are placed one inside the other and then joined. Finally molten bronze is poured into the thin space left empty between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Famed Foundry | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth in the industry in sales and profits although it ranks eighth in capacity. ¶John Clark Jr.. 44, will become president of Technicolor Inc., succeeding a company founder. Dr. (of Physics) Herbert T. Kalmus, 78, who is retiring from active participation after 45 years with Technicolor, manufacturer of most of the nation's color-movie prints. Indiana-born, Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Sartre piece (seen on Broadway ten years ago as Red Gloves) was the latest Play of the Week, eighth in an admirable series on New Jersey's WNTA-TV. The series presents a different taped play every week (six evenings, plus Sunday afternoons), usually relying on past Broadway productions and topnotch Broadway casts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Waking Them Up at Night | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...candidates tied for eighth place in the voting, and therefore, Thursday's ballot for the four Marshal positions will include nine names. Thomas C. Bagnoli, Christopher T. Bayley, Arthur S. Cahn, W. Clarke Hudson, Joseph K. Hurd, Chit R. Kapur, Langley C. Keyes, Robert S. Lawrence, and James D. Lorenz will appear on the ballot...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Council Bars Late Petition On Marshals | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

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