Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I was about eight years of age I was greatly frightened by seeing a snake crawl out from behind some furniture in my room. My cries brought the elders, and they assured me that this appearance of a serpent was a good omen-that it meant I would become strong and great. For a time, in my ignorance, I had a worshipful attitude toward snakes...
...must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation's name: Soyus Sotsialisticheskekh Sovietskikh Respublik ("Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"). Tourists will pore over well-thought-out-schedules for "Seeing Moscow in Eight Days" or Leningrad in seven...
...thus making Tilden appear a martyr. Yet it is unlikely that Tilden cares either way: there are thousands to be made in professional tennis, not a little to be made in exploiting his reputation. Thus, without honor, passes the man who for six years dominated world tennis, who for eight years wielded a sceptral "bat" over the American net game...
...Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again the same way, right now," said Bernice Zittenfeld, talking for herself and her sister, Phyllis...
Inventor O'Grady has been working on his system for eight and a half years. Twenty one years ago he worked for the Kinemacolor company. Its pictures showed only two colors. This came from taking two films simultaneously, one through one color screen, the other through another color screen. Then the two films were glued together. Technicolor and Prismacolor pictures shown at present-day theatres come through similar processes...