Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighth Route Army harries the invader by guerrilla fighting throughout Shansi and Southern Hopei, and a "People's Self-Defense Army" of 50,000 mobile guerrilla units operates in central Hopei. By day a Chinese peasant, brown as the earth he tills, may placidly hoe his rows; by night he may be part of a guerrilla band that is chivying Japanese sentries; next day, when the Japanese start reprisals, he will be back on his acre, his gun and soldier's kit buried, a blank look on his face...
...Eighth Inning...
...common cause of deafness is deterioration of the eighth nerve, which leads to the ear. Five years ago, Dr. Selfridge noticed that most of his deaf patients ate very little food containing vitamin B, essential for healthy nerves. So he tried out vitamin B in tablets, rice bran and injections on over 100 cases of nerve deafness...
...contenders was 30-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's heavyweight champion who had not been in a ring for 15 months. The other was 24-year-old Lou Nova of Alameda, Calif., an inexperienced second-rater. By the eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling...
...that frame the Stahlmen bunched two hits singles by Bob Fulton and Fred Keyes down the first base line, and a brace of walks to Tom Healey and Art Johns. The last one forced Fulton home with a run. In the eighth Lupe Lupien poled a long drive out to center field and went all the way around the bases when the Jumbo outer gardeners misjudged the drive slightly. That poke wrote a finis to Harvard scoring for the afternoon...