Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams House blanked Dudley 8-0 in the final game of the House season on Soldiers Field Wednesday afternoon. A blocked kick in the first period gave the Goldcoasters two points, and an intercepted pass by quarterback Whitman in the final canto ran the total to eight...
...highly personalized type of instruction is offered in these seminars, the proportion of pupils to professors being generally about eight or ten to one as against about five hundred to one in such courses as History 1, and Government...
...Washington statistician hired by the commission for the purpose, Cecil Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates...
Winston Churchill's Great Contemporaries is a collection of 21 essays, product of eight years of scattered writings, on various figures of importance in recent European political history, by England's irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police...
...first lecture Tuesday, Chauncey B. Tinker, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has selected "Poetics Painting in England," in his series of eight on "Literary Tendencies in English Painting...