Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister...
...anything but a dumping ground for wretched immigrants from Dutch East Indies out of Dutch Guiana. Most notorious of all are the uses to which French Guiana has been put. In the penal settlements along the coast and on the famed lies du Salut, ("Devil's Island") between eight and nine thousand of the most hardened French criminals are left to rot; in fertile and promising French Guiana proper are less than 45,000 sleazy colonists and appallingly diseased natives...
Probably the most significant result of the whole study is the fact that there is after all not a great deal of difference between the two sets of students. All the contrasts must be made by the narrowest of margins. The outstanding fact that out of this class of eight hundred three hundred were engaged in sports at one time or another is an indication of the success of Harvard's policy of "athletics...
...distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes was enough to get from Harvard Square to the Back Bay station. With things in such a sad state, it is evident that the time has come to shut up shop. So today the shutters go up on the Vagabond's windows, the clock is stopped and the typewriter given...
Harvard University will be represented by an outdoor rifle team for the first time next spring when the rifle club will send eight men to compete in the Intercollegiate Rifle Meet, according to an announcement made late last night...