Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
Everyone knows the data of American prosperity which have become commonplace. There was one motor car for every eight inhabitants, one radio set for every four inhabitants, one telephone for every three. . . .* Suddenly this beautiful scene collapsed and we had a series of black days. . . . Black days followed black days and prosperity was replaced by long lines of unemployed waiting for soup and bread in the great American cities. . . . From that day we also were pushed into the high seas, and from that day navigation has become extremely difficult...
...been rumored as listed among the bootees not as a Communist but as a Progressive, oldtime foe of the conservative parties. Finns have regarded the Communist kidnappings with marked complacency, but kidnapping their George Washington was another matter. Something had to be done. Detectives worked furiously. Last week eight persons were brought to trial, the spotlight was fixed on the chief conspirators: Major General K. Martii Wallenius, former Chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Colonel Kuussaari, head of the Staff's mobilization section. In court last week the prosecutor slid over, the details of the kidnapping attempt, concentrated...
...issuing fraudulent checks and failure to pay the wages of employes at a military academy which he conducts at El Monte, Calif., Major Richard M. Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was haled into court, indicted on eight counts, freed under bonds...
...Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe by fighting only at catchweights, Battalino ran into one of Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted out the round, was stronger in the next, soon began to pile up points, crowding Chocolate all the time, whipping clumsy but effective hooks to the blackamoor's kinky head and antlike thorax. After 15 rounds of it, referee...