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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Ulen will undoubtedly enter a strong enough trio to win the medley, but he may not use his fastest foursome in the relay if the Crimson have come through as expected and piled up the necessary 38 points or more in the first eight races...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: Navy, Pennsylvania Slated to Encounter Mermen This Week | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...woodpecker tapping on a bank vault. Because of the small bombs used and the difficulty of sighting for enough lethal hits, most of the ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning under sea-drenched blankets. Of eight ships claimed by Nazis in one day last week, the British admitted the actual loss of only two, one of them shattered by a torpedo launched from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Ducks and Woodpeckers | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...harbor, at remote bays around the island. In the tropical climate, with next to nothing to do, the men's morale has rotted. Food is poor and scanty, water precious. Crews with edible cargoes have eaten them (one ship had nothing but oranges and lemons). The men receive eight guilders ($4.24) per month to spend on shore, plus 20 paper marks good aboard ship (for barber, laundry, etc.). The one man ashore in Curaçao who might help them, German Consul Fensohn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: One War at a Time | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...movement for an eight-hour day, The Nation in 1865 uttered a gloomy warning: "The time is not far distant when all things will be in common and grass grow in Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nation's 75th | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...undefeated Yardling swimming team piled up 76 points to Brookline High's 28 and Huntington School's 27 in the Indoor Athletic Building pool Saturday afternoon. The Crimson first-year men swept seven out of eight possible firsts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Swimmers Capture Awards in Annual Carnival | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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