Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose prowess the Crimson football destinies now depend, 36 went to private prep schools, eight to high schools, and one is a transfer student from another university. Milton leads the van with a total of eleven representatives, Exeter is second with seven, Groton third with three, while Andover and Worcester Academy each supplies two. Taft, St. Paul's, St. Mark's Noble and Greenough, Loomis, Berkshire, Chestnut Hill Academy, New Prop, Roxbury, St. George's and Middlesex have one apiece...
There are eight class crews working out, four under the direction of Coach Haines and four under the guidance of Coach E. J. Brown '96. These crews are made up of all the heavy oarsmen who will be candidates for the University crew in the spring. There are also six lightweight eights being tutored by F. R. Sullivan...
During the first eight months of it required something more than $17,600,000 per day to finance the birth and the growth of U. S. industry. Total new financing up to Aug. 31 reached the figure of $4,231,847,000-money raised at the rate of a half billion a month or six billion a year. This figure included stocks, bonds and notes, but did not include real estate or municipal securities either in this country or Canada. Except for a comparatively small amount of financing by Canadian corporations and by foreign corporations, cities and governments, it represented...
Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...
...whole reading world into the front line trenches with him, and those readers have returned with the feeling that such horrors must not happen again. Probably no book of this type has ever created such a widespread impression or worked so profoundly for the cause of peace. In eight brief months, it has become a classic. Long since translated into English and French, it is now being published in twenty-four languages, so that those who have fought may recall the horrors of war, and that those who belong to the new generations may be forewarned...