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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president made a plea to the Annex student body to devote four full years to higher education. One hundred thirty-eight 'Cliffe students left school, primarily for marriage, during the past year. He commented that the academic mortality rate on the other hand was exceptionally low, averaging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Talks At Radcliffe's 71st Opening | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...Brimming Cup. In Topsfield, Mass., while trying to sell surplus apples at the local fair, Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Abbott learned that in the apple pie baking contest they had won second and third prizes: eight bushels of apples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Three thousand eight hundred and thirty upperclassmen will run the Memorial Hall obstacle race today as the College takes another slash in its enrollment and winds up with less than 5000 students for the first time since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Upperclassmen, Grad Schools Register Today; University Enrollment Due to Drop 700 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...result of the lower registration, no freshman has to bunk in at the Blockhouse this fall, and the Houses can continue to deconvert. Seventy-eight dormitory beds have been set up in Claverly and Wigglesworth in case too many upperclassmen sign up, but the College doesn't expect to need them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Upperclassmen, Grad Schools Register Today; University Enrollment Due to Drop 700 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...memory system" consists of eight storage drums and a sequencing drum. Problems are solved by feeding information on a magnetic tape to the sequencing drum which in turn "commands" the computing section to accomplish the desired operations with the numbers in the storage drum. The results then come out of the machine on another magnetic tape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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