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Word: eight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Harvard Athletic Association Building a competition for Second Assistant Football Manager will open. This competition is the second of its kind this year, the first lasting eight weeks during the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 Football Managers Called | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...eight week's competition for the managership of the Freshman tennis team will begin with a meeting at the Freshman Athletic Building at 1:45 o'clock today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 Tennis Managerial Contest Open | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

John Sims & Wife come back to a closet flat, under the noise of the elevated, where the bathroom door swings open annoyingly, and the Murphy bed clasps catch on blankets. John becomes twice a father and gets an eight dollar raise. John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Love and Learn. Chilling, blonde, Esther Ralston maintains her clotheshorse position in the records of Paramount in this odd little piece wherein her efforts are aimed at the prevention of a parental separation. By plunging, in her straight eight, through the front of the police station, the young lady manages to get to jail, there overhears the details of a conspiracy to drag the young and charming judge who sentenced her into a badger-game.* She goes to his room, prevents compromise, reveals the plot, wins love. A divorce is prevented, her adventures having kept father and mother together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...know more about horned toads, I reckon, than any man in Texas, both inside and out. I have mounted everything from a humming bird to a Texas steer with horns eight feet long from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horned Toad | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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