Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appeared in his office with his right wrist swollen, bandaged. Cause: undefined and perhaps undefinable*. . . . He watched workmen on the roof of the White House, suddenly retreated eight yards. Cause: a crane dangling lumber above his head. . . . Mrs. Coolidge wore a green scarf. Cause: St. Patrick...
Last week a crew made up of eight young ladies from Oxford met a crew made up of eight young young ladies from Cambridge in a half-mile race against time on the Isis River, England. In spite of some secrecy, an unwelcomed male cheering section of 5,000 was on hand and saw the Oxford ladies, urged by a fair coxswain wearing a corsage of violets, triumph over their Cambridge rivals. U. S. headline writers derived great inspiration from the announcement that the winning crew wore skirts; the losers, pants...
...Harvard Crimson, open to both Sophomores and Freshmen will begin on Thursday, March 31, it was announced last night by the business manager. There are still at least three vacancies on the Business Board open to members of the class of 1929. The competition will last approximately eight weeks...
...principle of this series of meetings, the remaining four of which will be held on April fourteenth, twenty-eight, and May twelfth and twenty-sixth, is to let Freshmen, who are naturally rather isolated from most of the undergraduate activities, get into closer touch with the rest of the college. It has been found that a great many first year men have avoided entering certain activities merely because they did not know what the competition entailed and these meetings ought to clear any doubts on such matters...
...Eight Harvard men and seven Radcliffe students, constituting more than half those to whom awards were made, have received fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation. These were from a total of 29 recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Scholarship Grants in the Fine Arts...