Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...
Capacity. Why may these machines revolutionize the cotton industry? Because, according to the makers, two men can operate the picker or the stripper, can pick or strip two to five bales of cotton in a day, equivalent to what two men could do by hand in eight to 15 days...
...time; three at a time; four at a time; until she bounced her ball and scooped all ten at once into a dainty, dusty fist. This process scored a game. The medal went to small Josephine Landt who attained the incredible (to clumsy adults) total of 25 games and eight jacks before she missed...
...packed to hear Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology report on another summer's investigation of the all-penetrating ether vibrations, or universal rays, detected a quarter-century ago but not measured until two years ago, by Dr. Millikan. New measurements, taken with instruments eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead, the X- ray-stopping metal. Impinging...
...Gillette Co. had traced the bogus blades after hearing that the South American market was flooded with them. Eight suspects were held for questioning...