Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Desha Bank & Trust Co. building at Arkansas City, Ark., stands a clock, the hands of which point to twelve minutes past two. They have been recording that moment for some eight weeks, ever since the Mississippi flood hit the town and stopped the clock. They may continue to register 2:12 for weeks, perhaps months, to come. For most of Arkansas City is still under water and in Arkansas City, as in thousands of other towns, villages and plantations in the flood district, the aftermath of the catastrophe threatens to cause more loss, more suffering than the catastrophe itself...
...Under what circumstances he eight weeks later wrote and signed the statement that he sent to me for publication I do not know." The effect of this was discounted by the interpretation furnished the New York World by its Washington correspondent, Charles Michelson: "Henry Ford's recantation of his anti-Semitism ... is taken by the politicians to be his first step towards entering the 1928 campaign for the Presidency. The circumstance that he made the Hearst newspapers his vehicle for the dissemination of his change of heart is interpreted as indicating that William Randolph Hearst is about to push...
Kevin O'Higgins was one of those who formed the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State in 1921. "We were simply eight young men," he has said, "standing amid the ruins of one administration, with the foundations of an-other not yet laid, and with wild men screaming through the key-hole...
...biplane S-29,* specially tricked out and loaded by the United Cigar Stores Co., has further misfortune. Last week, trying to start its tour from Curtiss Field, L. I., it bowled into a smaller ship obscured by dust on the field, delaying its departure four days. On board were eight persons including skipper and wife, salesmen, mechanics...
...Sinclair issued a windy discourse, Mammonart, purporting to outline the history of Art and show that it has always been the valet of opulence. In 1923 he prescribed for U. S. education in The Goose-Step. But it is eight years since he has published a novel. The appearance of one* this summer might have passed unnoticed - for Sinclair Lewis and others have long since so improved upon the Sinclair journalese that what once seemed striking is now stale as War news. But some policemen in Boston found passages in the book which made them feel it should be suppressed...