Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...privilege of knowing Comrade Semen Budenny personally, please permit me to take a liberty of correcting your information re said Budenny [TIME, Feb. 26]. ... He was not a Kosack, never in his life served as a Kosack, that is in an irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered in Hamadan, Persia. . . . When Budenny eventually was heard from...
...major accomplishment of the Olivers was the anthropological measurement of more than 2,000 natives taken from each of the eight main divisions of the island peoples. This was the most ambitious racial study ever undertaken in this region, which is called Melanesia...
...meet will consist of eight events instead of the customary nine. The regulation 300-yard medley relay and 400-yard relay are being replaced by an individual 150-yard medley. All the races will be run over short distances...
...Steel production, down for eight consecutive weeks, this week leveled off to 64.7% (up one-tenth of 1%), still ran about 50% ahead of new buying, mostly hand to mouth...
...with some six or eight other footloose vaudevillians, Mom bundled Sonny and luggage into two automobiles, headed for Hollywood. It was 1925. Sonny was five...