Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight the jury of eight men and four women had heard evidence, listened to argument. Fall had collapsed at the beginning of the trial, had been pronounced a dangerously ill man by impartial doctors but, at his insistence, the trial had gone on (TIME...
...theatrical manager. Aged 3, she appeared in Richard III; aged 15, she was starred with her own company. She has played Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Becky Sharp, Salvation Nell, many an Ibsen heroine. In 1890 she married theatrical director Harrison Grey Fiske who still stages her productions. Eight years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee...
...defense the Blue was using an eight man line a great part of the time and it proved to be an effective method of checking the Marsters runs. Poor Al only shook himself loose on about three occasions all afternoon. But this form of defense proved to be pretty poor protection against a careful forward passing attack as put on by Marsters and company in the third period. If Harvard can continue to improve overhead it certainly should have enough opportunity to capitalize on its skill. TIME...
Stradivarius Quartet, Court of Fogg Art Museum, eight o'clock...
Springfield College won the second Annual intercollegiate Cross Country Run held yesterday afternoon on the four and a half mile course along Charles River. The winners were able to bunch their runners so that from a group of eight runners, seven were in the first ten, and the eighth placed eleventh. This grouping made the Springfield score but 30 points, as the points of the first five men of finish were the only ones to count in the team's score. Northeastern University came in second with 48 points; Holy Cross third with 101 points; Harvard fourth with...