Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...little Australian destroyer Torrens last week. Three-quarters of a mile away Australia's two capital ships, the 10,000-ton cruisers Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...
...prisoners' box was not a confidence-inspiring red but leaden grey. Four soldiers guarded the eight prisoners. Facing Death, they smoked and read magazines to pass the time. Thirteen Jupiter arc lamps blazed upon judges, prosecutor, prisoners. A dozen Soviet photographers prowled and climbed about unhindered, taking snapshots. Cinema cameras, both silent and sound-recording, purred softly. To the half-million citizens shouting "Death! Death!" outside, batteries of loudspeakers shouted every word of the trial. To illiterate millions of Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow...
...members of the University are invited to an exhibition and sale of fifty-eight original Tyrolean woodcuts by Herbert Gurschner in Room 207, Harvard Cooperative Society Building, today, Monday, and Tuesday from 10 to 6 o'clock...
...Gallagher, coach of the University grapplers, reviewing the wrestling candidates, declares prospects look bright for the coming season with but three former "H" men missing from the eight weight divisions. The men lost to the team this year are, Nathaniel Warner '30, captain of last year's team, C. D. Newhart '31, and J. F. Solano '30. All three were in the top weight positions, Captain Warner wrestling in the unlimited class...