Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
Tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock the Harvard University cross country team will entrain for New York, where the annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet will take place Monday afternoon over the regular Van Cortlandt Park course. Eight runners will make the trip, of whom seven will start the race...
Whereupon no less than three hundred consecutive dramas with a backstage setting have been produced. The screen critics who are betting men make a comfortable living offering eight to five that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses...
...Eight men will be taken on the trip, of whom seven will run against the best material from many of the Eastern colleges. Captain R. C. Aldrich '31, N. P. Hallowell '32, G. M. Barrie '32, J. M. Fox '32,R. E. Aldrich '32, Sturtevant Burr '31, E. T. Floathe '32 and R. C. Hodges '31 will take the journey to New York. It is not yet decided whether Hodges or Floathe will run as seventh man; since his injury early in the season, the former has not been able to reach his best form: which of the two will...
...development of a new University four-mile stroke to fill the vacancy caused by the graduation of James Lawrence, Jr '29. The out standing candidates are P. H. Watts '31, J.E. Lawrence '32, S. W. Swaim '32, and R. W. Pearson '31. Watts rowed two in his freshman eight and last year stroked the first crew against Navy and Tenn and the jayvees against Yale Lawrence stroked the combination crew two years ago. Swaim was stroke and captain of his Freshman crew and last year stroked the University against Tech and Cornell and rowed bow on the second University against...