Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve springs Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera has visited Cleveland, and become so popular that it now plays in Public Hall, capacity 9,400. Two years ago eight operas drew 68,000 people, an indoor world record. During the week, music-lovers arrive by special plane from Detroit, by special train from Pittsburgh, Erie, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit. Only 40% of the seat-buyers are Clevelanders. There has never been a deficit. Top price is the same as in Manhattan, $7, but there are 1,049 seats at $1. Among other cities on which the Metropolitan calls this year-Boston...
...Forty-eight minutes later a similar report from Stockholm via a British news service, Exchange Telegraph, finally reached the U. S. Forty-nine minutes later the British Broadcasting Corp. gave early risers in Britain alarming reports of Denmark's invasion. For confirmation, BBC quoted the New York Times...
...eight-page tabloid, printed on standard newsprint, the Sunday News carried stories with a campus angle, church notices, two pages of sports, a page of pictures, no national or foreign news. Proprietors Haig & Wright put up $1,000 of their own money to get it started. Both juniors, they will give the Sunday News away free for the rest of the academic year (nine issues in all), hope next year to clear $75 a week...
Delighted with his success, Dr. Long tried ether on eight other patients. But gradually the word spread around that he was a sorcerer, and he was forced to give up anesthesia. Too modest to publish his early experiments until many years later, he laid his ether bottles aside...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...