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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skunk Meat." Had it not been for Planter Greene's timely intervention, Millhand Jones might have been the first person to be lynched in the U. S. in 1938. There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Could a person, making a detailed study in Hollywood learn the fundamentals of picture making in eight or ten weeks?" he was asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies Want Bright Young Men, but Colleges Must Give Practical Training | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

...said Mr. DeMille. "Nor in eight years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies Want Bright Young Men, but Colleges Must Give Practical Training | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

Fresh from a victory over Princeton, the Varsity sextet meets Brown in the Providence Arena tonight, in the final game before the mid-year period. The Bruins should furnish a breather after the hard McGill and Tiger games. They have split even in eight games against mediocre competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEYMEN WILL PLAY BROWN THIS EVENING IN PROVIDENCE ARENA | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...jury of eight Wellesley undergraduates selected him as one of the ten finalists, he was then chosen by four Seniors, all engaged and therefore regarded as unprejudiced, and was crowned with a blue Wellesley ski cap by Gwendoline Wilder, president of the Wellesley Athletic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Man Chosen King at Wellesley's Winter Carnival | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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