Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration's Navy building program. The Committee did not wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee erased from the bill drafted by Secretary Wilbur a clause giving the President authority to suspend building in the event of a naval limitation conference...
...cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises hour upon hour. His hobbies are billiards, bridge, books, cinemas, his ranch at Paso Robles, California, his villa on Lake Geneva. He is sixty-eight years old, but contrary to vogue, he refuses to name this or any other tour his last...
...part of a Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit in the Widener Memorial Room, three woodcut plates designed by the author are shown, with several old Spanish coin, or "pieces of eight," and a first edition of "Treasure Island." Three original water color drawings by William Blake are also on display, with "the Book of Job," illustrated by Blake...
...Pieces of eight" has become a byword in connection with Treasure Island. The coins displayed are dated in the 1690's and are the crude money of which Stevenson wrote. Instead of being minted, the silver coins were cut from the end of rough silver bars, and stamped with a design in the center. The edges remained irregular...
...morbid undergraduate has any curious desire to examine the mummies of eight members of the oldest, least known Indians of pre-historic times, he may do so at leisure in the Peabody Museum where the venerable perserved corpses of antiquity are recovering from the ordeal of a strenuous autopsy to which they were subjected recently by Dr. G. E. Wilson, histology instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Rather, six of the bodies has their privacy imposed upon, results of which permit an expose of the private life of Arizona's Basket Maker Indians...