Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They asked him why the Federal Farm Board had been so slow in extending to farmers the $500,000,000 credit at its disposal. Chairman Legge replied: "It took Congress eight years to pass farm legislation. The Board should be given a little more than two months to accomplish what is expected...
...Miami. Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed reports : Most destructive hurricane in Bahamian history. . . . Wracked Nassau for two days. . . . Velocity of gusts 180 miles. . . . Eight known dead. . . . Enormous destruction of property and shipping. . . . Only a few ships afloat. . . . No building escaped injury. . . . Sea wall broken, city flooded...
...Southern Pacific is neither a hospital nor a college. It is easy to understand why the gift was made. Though Mr. Harkness is a director of eight railroads, he has long had a penchant for the Southern Pacific. Of each and every year he spends a part inspecting the road. Many of the employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes...
Starting Monday, November 19, a course of eight lectures will be given by G. A. Reisner '89, professor of Egyptology, telling of his explorations in Egypt...
...course of eight illustrated talks is to be given by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, and geologist of the United States Geological survey, on the geologic history of mankind, presenting from the point of view of a geologist the known facts and scientific theories concerning the origin of the race and its prehistoric distribution upon the face of the earth...