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Word: eight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who reported will work until the Freshman Jubilee in the latter part of May. At that time 12 men will be elected to the Business Board, 12 to the Editorial Board, eight to the Photographic Board, and eight to the Arts and Cuts Board. One man in each competition will become a sub-chairman in his department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 OUT IN FORCE AT FIRST TRIALS FOR RED BOOK BOARD | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...evening the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down in Adam* chairs to an Adam table in the five-windowed dining-room decorated in rose tapestry paper, ate their first meal in the temporary White House. Fifty-eight guests could easily have dined there with them. For a more festive night they left the pink and white Louis XIV ballroom across the hall, with its balcony, fireplace and paintings by many masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Traitor! What about the eight hours law?" cried a burly miner. All knew that Premier Baldwin had sponsored and seen through the Commons a bill extending the one-time seven-hour miners' day to eight hours (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brutal Facts'' | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...will repeat," shouted Mr. Jones, "that all the crocodile tears shed over this disaster by the Government are sheer hypocrisy. . . . The visit of the Prime Minister with a tearful sop to men on whom the Government has imposed the eight-hour day was sheer effrontery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brutal Facts'' | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four out of the eight horses on which the protective armor was tried out. Madrid bullfight fans howled disapproval of the whole proceeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 50-50 Fight | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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