Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scouts, too, have been trekking through foreign lands. Sixteen Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were last fortnight welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London. Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions. Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark. Possibly one Scout will accompany Commander Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole...
Eighteen airplanes entered for the prize. Eight started. Two crashed; two turned back; two disappeared; two finished...
Viewpoints. To decide what the united Christian Church is or should be, it was necessary to reconcile varying interpretations of the word "church." On one hand was the Eastern Orthodox view that the Church, established and immutably fixed at seven ecumenical councils during the first eight centuries, is an objectively divine institution. An opposite view, held by Congregationalists, Methodists and other democratic communions, is that the Church originated and consists essentially in living people banded together for worship, upon whom tradition can lay no imperative bonds and from whom church organization draws its significance and changes in form. Between these...
...Pitkin's device, which was described technically in the July number of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, consists of a small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...
...experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter's eight moons...