Word: sixtieth
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...patient, it shut itself off. "O.K.," said Laughlin, "that's it." Thus the University of Illinois unveiled its betatron, the first of such power to be used in the U.S. for medical treatment.* Its advantage over earlier X-ray producers, most of which generate no more than a sixtieth of its power, is in the penetrating power of its high-speed, ultra-shortwave rays. Ordinary rays do most of their work at the skin surface or just below it, and are then dissipated. In large doses they cause serious skin burns. The betatron's supercharged rays have their...
...McCormick won top honors among the Crimson entries Saturday night when be streaked into the 45-yard hurdle finals in the sixtieth annual BAA meet in the Boston Garden...
...most interesting items in this month's Advocate are eight poems T. S. Eliot wrote for the magazine when he was at Harvard, which are reprinted in honor of his sixtieth birthday. In at least one of them--"Spleen"--there are traces of the point of view and the language that he developed later. And in all of them it is clear that T. S. Eliot was a writer and not a literary man. --Joel Raphaelson
This puts the 'Cliffe Class of 1938 thirtieth in a field of 84 women's colleges surveyed, as opposed to the Annex Class of 1923 position of sixtieth in a like field...
...Class of 1888, the oldest unit which will celebrate as a group, holds its sixtieth reunion tomorrow. At a dinner in his Concord home Charles Francis Adams '88 will entertain his mates...