Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Polite, Brewer Busch seldom foams over in public against the law which outlawed his ancestral business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League...
...London the British Admiralty released a communiqué from which three facts appeared. First that the British were now receiving the first official intimation that the L55 was ever sunk. Second that the Admiralty had announced on June 12, 1919, eight days after the sinking, that a submarine (unnamed) was missing from the British Baltic Fleet. Third, that the relatives and next of kin of the Britishmen lost on the L55 were privily notified...
...names of these eight outstanding intermediaries between People and Nominees...
Capt. James Clark Ross: Six times he invaded the Arctic, then turned South and in 1842 gave his name to the Ross Sea. Fifty-eight years later, no explorer had penetrated closer to the South Pole...
...eight important debates in which he has participated during the last six years, Dr. Straton...