Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight Minute Drama...
Princeton received the kickoff again, ran a couple against Booth and Allen, and decided to kick. Don Daughters blocked the punt, Bobby Green picked it up and raced to the one-yard line where Struck walked over for another tally. And all this in eight minutes of play...
...dairy breeds do not make first-class beef, hence, a breeder or raiser of dairy cattle would send his heifer calf to the butcher for veal at eight weeks, if he knew she would not breed, produce a calf and become a milch cow later-rather than feed the calf for twelve to 18 months, find she could not be gotten with calf, and then had to go to the butcher...
When the Madrid embassy was officially abandoned by the U. S. last Thanksgiving, no provision was made for feeding the remaining Americans. This job fell naturally to Captain Cannaday, who was acclaimed sutler by the beleaguered refugees. First measure of Farmer Cannaday was to accept a loan of eight full-uddered Hereford cows from a dairyman whose farm lay in the path of Generalissimo Franco's advancing legionnaires. Quartered in the embassy garage and pastured on its expansive lawn, the cows produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise...
...infant: prodigy entered. The hall became quiet. . . . He looked as though he were nine years old but was really eight and given out for seven.-Thomas Mann, The Infant Prodigy...