Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police hastily sent out an eight-State alarm, searched trains, railroad stations, hotels. And as Henry's agitated father, John Cyrus Distler, sped by train to New York, the two boys marched calmly into Henry's house in Baltimore...
...flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with one loop; Cossack trick riding, the U. S. Cavalry "monkey drill," a blind jumping horse...
...takes at least 70 musicians to make a symphony orchestra, and they must be as carefully fitted as the parts of a machine. A symphony orchestra in good running order has from 28 to 34 violinists, from twelve to 14 viola players, from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable...
...started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered. His ball crossed...
...Fifty-eight-year-old Jacob Epstein, radical, Manhattan-born British sculptor whose monolithic works have created periodic storms among England's art critics, was awarded his first honorary degree (LL. D.), by Scotland's Aberdeen University. Said Aberdeen in honoring him: "The works of Mr. Epstein have sometimes evoked a lively criticism, which has died away as the critics themselves came to learn or came to be ignored...