Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned the Premiership. "Mes amis," asked Premier Poincaré last week, "do you know what has happened...
...Eight jazz Jupiters-Paul Whiteman, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, George Olson, Roger Wolff Kahn, Fred Rich, B. A. Rolfé, Ernie Golden, assembled in Manhattan last week, prepared to purify their business. They organized the National Association of Orchestra Leaders and named Julian T. Abeles arbiter of jazz at a salary of $25,000 a year. It will be his duty to stop the cut-throat competition among orchestras for famed musicians, phonograph contracts, bookings. Said Mr. Abeles: "There is not going to be any more poaching or tampering with saxophonists and other artists. In adopting this policy...
...addition to this attraction the management announces that the performance, starting at 11.30 o'clock sharp, will consist of eight vandeville acts. In making this present bid for the University's patronage, several acts from the Keith-Albee Exchange have been booked...
...Eight or nine years ago Palmer H. Craig was working for his doctors' degree at the University of Cincinnati. He had majored in physics so his thesis consisted chiefly of reports on numerous experiments. He spent weeks on experiments of different kinds. Some were failures, some were partially successful. He labored hard for he was interested in his work...
...spite of poor teamwork and support Barbee and Green played good individual games. For Holy Cross Connors was the outstanding star with eight field goals and three free throws...