Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...
...regiment and was condemned to death (later pardoned) for participating in an officers' revolt against the Crown. The next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended up as a tycoon with a rich wife. He had eight children, of whom the first, Sophia, became an internationally famed trained nurse. The third was named Carl Gustaf Emil. In him was a little of the tycoon, a little of the scientist, a great deal of the rebel. Wrote his mother to a friend: "I can feel secure about...
...University of Chicago won only two football games last season. So did North Carolina State College. Chicago was beaten six times, North Carolina State eight times. Because "the peculiar advantages of football [to a college] arise only from winning football," Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins concluded that he must either: 1) hire a winning team (against Big Ten rules), or 2) abolish football. Last December Dr. Hutchins and his trustees abolished football at Chicago...
...eight-page, tabloid-size picture paper, the World is at present the only offset daily in the U. S. With a small bi-weekly as his sole competitor, Editor Fitzgibbon at the end of his first month had a paid circulation of 1,300, plenty of advertising. Using a linotype to set up his copy, he could compete with many a metropolitan newspaper in neatness and variety of makeup. When the World wanted to print an election extra with a special head, Fitzgibbon went around the corner to a department store, made his paste-up head with a stencil, printed...
...proxies on the chance that the attorney would be allowed to vote them. Then the skies cleared. Stockholder Rich hopped a plane, landed in Tulsa, taxied from the airport to the Barnsdall offices, arrived only 15 minutes after the meeting had been called, found it had been concluded eight minutes before. In five minutes Barnsdall officers had cleaned up all business in the stockholders' meeting and voted in the recapitalization plan...