Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Department, since 1925. It was a fight over Senator Couzens' profit tax on his shares in the Ford Motor Co., which he sold in 1919. Last week, Senator Couzens won the fight and the Treasury Department lost perhaps $2,000,000 in refunds to Senator Couzens and eight other onetime Ford stockholders...
...smart set of Des Moines (pop. 148,900), biggest city in Iowa, often amuse themselves with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
...wrote answers to the regular examination paper which was given to all Harvard seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly: "Harvard men cannot be said to aim at, for they essentially are, good form...
George Kuehn was the outstanding performer for the schoolboys, capturing two firsts with very little opposition. In the high jump, Kuehn cleared five feet eight inches with plenty to spare, and then came back to throw the shot 46 feet 11 1-2 inches to win the event with a two-foot leeway over his nearest competitor...
...championship Sophomore crew overwhelmed the Yale Junior Class crew at Derby Saturday by six lengths. Rowing in rough water with a following wind the Sophomore eight jumped into a lead at the start and steadily pulled away. The Crimson eight set this year's record for the mile and three quarters distance at Derby, turning in a time of nine minutes, 13 and two-fifths seconds...