Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she graduated from high school, she got a job in the Hackensack office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for eight hours a day, at least, put her mind on card files and customers' complaints. That was where James Steward first saw her. He was the advertising manager, a graduate of Alabama University, 22, quiet and reserved. Jessie's brown eyes stopped him in his tracks...
Grand Ol' Opry is a four-hour, mountain-music hoe-down broadcast every Saturday night by WSM, Nashville, Tenn., and carried in part over a network of 25 southern NBC Stations. It has been on the air 14 years, now has eight sponsors (main account: Prince Albert Tobacco; others: lamps, cough drops, chicory, even snuff). A half -hour of it is now recorded for Prince Albert, put on the air in Los Angeles, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis...
Conway N. H.: snow good. Eight inches with a breakable crust...
...ideas, and does a great many of them in dynamics of rhythm rather than in strict melody. He does the weirdest off-beat stuff you would want to hear--climbs way out on a limb, counts the clever, but still manages to get back in time for the next eight bar sequence. This is piano that isn't pretty, pre-calculated, or trite. It's some of the guttlost and best jazz I have heard in a long time...
Even in periods of depression a progressive university will be heavily endowed; Chicago, for instance, took in no less than eight million dollars last year. As long as there is private wealth, there will always be men who are willing to give money to a university--provided it is worth it. Before drastically "adjusting" its academic standing to its diminishing income. Harvard can still ask its benefactors to permit immediate expenditure of current gifts. But the fact remains that it is only be continuing to be worthy of new endowments that Harvard can assure itself of a prosperous future...