Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest citizen...
...oldest citizen's future was undoubtedly precarious; but Vienna (and all the West) could take some cheer and comfort from the fact that the bells of St. Stephen's were still there to ring in the new year...
...Cornell University's oldest and most bibulous social societies, Majura and Beth L'Amed, were holding a joint initiation ceremony on the eve of the Christmas holidays, and everyone was having a wonderful time. Then, as part of his ordeal, 20-year-old Harry C. Melton, a mechanical engineering student, undertook to drink himself silly. In about an hour, he had wolfed down more than a quart of Martinis. At that point he collapsed, was rushed to a hospital where he lay unconscious for 15 hours. For a while doctors feared for his life...