Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mightily of a twitter were the twelve warlike princes of Yemen and their potent father, the Imam Yahya ben Muhammad ben Hamid al Din. Over coffee brewed from the peerless beans of Menakha, and with the eight gates of the Imam's capital barred for the night, a conference took place in deadly secrecy between Plenipotentiary and Potentate...
...estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for him to take a shrewd step in respect to the inheritance taxes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, for the Prince is now aged four score and eight...
...eight-oared crew was to be selected to represent the U. S. at the Olympic Games. Canada had already picked the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto. The U. S. problem was to find out whether undefeated California or undefeated Yale could be defeated. They met on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to decide. California took the lead at the start. It was a small lead-one-half a length-sometimes it grew to three-quarters of a length, but never did anybody see any open water between the shells of California and Yale. They were going along at a high...
...began serious tryouts to determine the personnel of the U. S. International Cup defending team. The Oranges, with Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Cheever Cowdin, Will S. Tevis, C. A. Wilkinson, defeated the Whites, with Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Malcolm Stevenson, W. A. Harriman, E. A. S. Hopping, ten to eight. They played good polo. They knew that some fast young men from the Argentine were watching them, and that these Argentinians are going to be dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then...
...dance hall. Eva once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests; all went to the same London hotel; all went to the cinema; all held hands. "Nine Catholic priests, and you in the middle?"-"No, at one end. Father Michael and I holding hands, and all the other eight too in a chain. Very intriguing...