Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eight officers of the United States Navy will be stationed at the Engineering School next year as successor to the men who are just finishing their year of work here. The men chosen are graduates of Annapolis who have shown especial ability and are given an additional course of training at civil institution...
Seven times in the last eight years the Intercollegiate Games have been won by a California college. Last week Stanford, true to precedent, was first at Cambridge, 17⅔ points ahead of Yale. The big event was the pole vault in which the three best vaulters in the world competed-Ward Edmonds of Stanford, Les Barnes of Southern California, and Sabin Carr of Yale. Carr won without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle...
...every eight persons owns securities...
...sardonic farce, its scene is a room in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building, where eight reporters are engaged in covering a murder trial. They have almost succeeded in persuading the sheriff to stage the execution ahead of schedule, in time for the early editions, when the murderer, a meek little fellow, shoots his way out of jail. Hildy Johnson, the most agile of the newsgatherers, captures him by good luck and attempts to conceal him in a rolltop desk until he has had time to scoop the story...
Besides this timely gesture with the bat, Dobens held the Harvard hitters in the hollow of his hand throughout the game. He allowed only four hits and struck out eight men. The potency of his spell is seen in the fact that although he committed every fault in the pitching calendar, the score was no larger. Three passes, three hit basemen, a balk and a wild pitch could not dim the glory of his hurling performance...