Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That America wants to help them by lending or giving money to them to save their own lives is also axiomatic today. That the Soviet Union would, because of this, declare war on the United States is about the silliest thought that I ever heard advanced in the fifty-eight years of my life...
With their zone defence working ineffectively, Harvard was unable to find the mark before the Tigers had piled up a commanding lead. Captain Lutz with eight points was the outstanding Harvard player, but he hardly matched Meyerholz...
...leading American scorer is Dartmouth's Dan Sullivan, who accounted for five of his team's eight goals against Harvard and now has a total of 11 points...
Savannah's late, great Chemist Charles Holmes Herty spent the last eight years of his life trying to make commercial newsprint out of Southern pines. In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill. What kept Dr. Herty at his labors (and excited many a Southern businessman) was the prospect of another rich, new industry to help along the South's industrial revival...
...February 1930, one Wall Street broker had had enough of a good thing, was ready to get out while the getting was good. His name: Charles Edward Merrill. His firm: Merrill Lynch & Co. His fortune: a comfortable eight-digit one. Out of broking, Merrill Lynch continued as an underwriting and investment house, specializing in equity securities of growing chain-store systems. Its babies: Safeway Stores, First National Stores, McCrory Stores, Lerner, Kresge, Western Auto Supply...