Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses, like cooked food, like medicines, like all arts and sciences, like everything which distinguishes man from the lower animals, like marriage itself. More frequently still they quote the in- junction to Noah, "Be fruitful and multiply," given, according to tradition, when the people of the earth were eight in number. It is difficult to see how a thoughtful priest can justify the continued quotation of these words under present conditions of world population or can reconcile it with the practice of religious celibacy...
From those who try-out in the various universities throughout the country, Mr. McCormich will select the most promising, furnish them with transportation to and from California, and give them an eight week trial in productions starring Colleen Moore, Richard Barthelmess, Milton Sills, Bilie Dove, Ken Maynard and others...
...mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden, whose only child Lolita Ogden (Mrs. John...
...business competition exclusively for Freshmen will be conducted by the CRIMSON for eight weeks starting Thursday, April 28. Although previous competitions have been open to Freshmen this is the first one which they will not have to con pete with upper classmen...
Former students now holding legislative positions made up the next largest body with a total of 660. Thirty-eight of these are members of Congress; three more are Canadian M. P.'s. Two are listed as speakers of the House of Rep. resentatives. Over 370 Law School alumni are in state legislatures, while 244 more are city aldermen or council...