Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirley Temple-"Presh" to her mother -now a radio actress, has long been a radio fan. She has six or eight radio sets at her command in her daily comings & goings, likes Gang Busters almost as well as her favorite, the Lone Ranger. But, because of studio and parental objections, she has never been allowed to act on a radio program before this week...
EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE-eight years managing the White House, vice president of New York League of Women Voters, chairman of legislative committee of New York Woman's City Club...
...Carnegie Institution of Washington is the biggest scientific empire under one management in the world.* Its expeditions study archeology in Mexico, terrestrial magnetism in Peru, anthropology in Java; but its eight major provinces lie in the U. S.: Mount Wilson Observatory, perched on a mountain top near Pasadena; its division of plant biology, with headquarters at Stanford University; its department of embryology at Baltimore; its department of genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island; its geophysical laboratory and its department of terrestrial magnetism at Washington; its nutrition laboratory in Boston; its division of historical research, whose headquarters are in Washington...
...high-flying Blackbirds preserved a winning streak rare in basketball annals. Because they play so many games a season, U. S. basketball teams seldom finish a season undefeated. Long Island University, however, won all its 24 games last year, had by last week won 42 games in a row (eight of them this season...
...about football. It received less attention than anthropology, no more than chess. In neolithic days Chicago became the dummy of the Big Ten. For three years it has failed to win a football game from any of its Conference opponents. This year the once mighty Maroons won two of eight games (against minor-league Oberlin and Wabash), had 308 points scored against them...