Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lundin made a careful survey of the military and naval war service records of Harvard graduates from 1775 to 1783 and found that eight of the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence were alumni of the College, that General Artemas Ward, class of 1748, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army, and that 245 of 1361 living graduates saw active war service. Fifteen percent of the graduate body at this time were known as loyalists or "Tories" with another group of 250 recognized as of patriot sympathies although unqualified for military duty...
...arriving at the boathouse, the first eight gave their decision on the boat to be used against Yale. They favored unanimously the red cedar shell presented to Harvard this year by Mr. Ridley Watts, fathers of Captain John Watts. This craft was constructed by George Pocock of Washington, the foremost racing shell designer in the country...
...five upper classmen who will now on the combination eight are C. N. Comstock '30, Edward Hamlin, Jr. '29, D. R. Kroell '29, J. S. Wintringham '30, and Roger Donaldson '30. The Freshman members of this crew are Lawrence Grinnell '31, J. F. Lawrence '31. E. L. Millard '31, and Richard Kimball '31, coxswain...
...energy. Of course if the first American was not called back he would undoubtedly win. But if he did not get away with it, then the next American would try, and the next, until each American would have started twice, while Abrahams would have had to start hard eight times. In that many chances it was very probable that one American would get away. But if no one did, it would not make any difference, because Abrahams would be so worn out from his eight trials that an American would win anyway...
...saddle horse and carried coffee samples in his saddle bags. At that time he affected a pointed beard. When he came home from a trip he would potter around his kitchen oven roasting experimental blends of coffee. He used twelve-pint coffee pots for brewing his blends. His eight sons and one daughter guard those pots as heirlooms. Two of these sons sell Dodge cars in Tennessee. The other six are officers in the business. J. Will Neal and his son, J. Robert Neal, are vice presidents at Houston where the company has one of its seven coffee-blending factories...