Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DESPITE HOLLYWOOD RESISTANCE VIA BLOCK BOOKING STRANGLEHOLD AND DESPITE ANTAGONISM OF A FEW DOCTORS THE LORENTZ-DE KRUIF PICTURE WILL INEVITABLY ACCOMPLISH THE TWO PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT WAS MADE. IT WILL SAVE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND BABIES AND IT WILL PROVIDE THE INTELLIGENT ADULT WITH ONE HOUR AND EIGHT MINUTES OF A THRILLING EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE WHICH HE OR SHE WILL LONG REMEMBER...
...Dressed Up. Seventy-eight days after the U. S. entered World War I, "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with 59 officers, 67 enlisted men, 36 field clerks, five civilian interpreters. If the U. S. chose to enter World War II this week, the Army's Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall could immediately begin shipping upwards of 60,000 reasonably well-equipped, ready-to-fight regulars. He could put on the firing line five modernized, motorized infantry divisions, two cavalry divisions (one on wheels, one using both wheels and horses), a serviceable force of combat aviation (which could...
Collegiate. At Indianapolis and Kansas City eight of the top college teams in the country fought it out in the Eastern and Western play-offs for the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. At Indianapolis, in the final of the Eastern Division playoffs, Indiana University (runner-up to Purdue in the Big Ten Conference) trounced Pittsburgh's Duquesne (defeated only once in 18 games during the season), 39-to-30. At Kansas City in the last round of the Western Division playoffs, the University of Kansas (Big Six co-champions) nosed out the University of Southern California (champions...
...130th victory in 132 games this season, the 1,840th victory since the team was organized 13 years ago. Traveling by bus, they cover 35,000 miles a year, attract 350,000 spectators. In all games their technique is the same: to try to get eight or ten points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year-old Inman Jackson, a 6 ft. 3 in. 200-pounder, who serves...
Book Two is a piece of natural history in human terms: the story of a queen bee. Eula Varner is a semi-superhuman embodiment of unmitigated sex, already embarrassingly female at the age of eight. As she ripens, the male community establishes itself in quavering, fighting concentrics of courtship: first raw boys, then slick sports in shiny buggies. But it is Flem who finally gets her. He takes her to Texas...