Word: eight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...imagine my pleasure on receiving my copy of TIME for March 21. How delighted I was with your supplement of "eight pages of Questions & Answers," and what an entertaining time my roommate and I had playing "The Game...
...came last week of things deep stirring in the heart of Asia. Bleak Soviets rule today, instead of Tamburlaine, but even so the men of Samarkand still sip iced honey as of old, still deal in that exquisite lambskin, caracul, worth sometimes ?500 ($2430) a hide and still transship eight hundred million pounds of Chinese tea each year to Russia. The men of Samarkand were occupied last week in quite the good old way. The women were causing trouble...
...walked toward the Daniels Home, when we were accosted by seven or eight soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Southern [Nationalist] army. The soldiers stopped us and demanded our valuables, which we handed over. Dr. Williams, who was a noted Chinese scholar and spoke the language like a native, then stepped up and addressed one of the soldiers and protested at the action...
...said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know...
...knew how to cure encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) two years ago when Mrs. Jane Norton Grew Morgan, wife of John Pierpont Morgan contracted the disease. She drowsed for eight weeks, then died. Nor do doctors yet know how to cure it. It is one of the small number of diseases, including cancer and rheumatic fever, of which the cause is still obscure, and because the cause remains hidden the proper mode of treatment must of necessity remain haphazard and the cure a matter more of chance than of science...