Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed U. S. architects such as the firm of Cram & Ferguson received within the past fortnight contracts for designs for eight chapels at European cemeteries where U. S. soldiers are buried...
...addition, eight monuments will be erected, the largest in the Meuse-Argonne area...
From Cologne in the Rhineland a huge German air liner droned up and away to London at 90 miles an hour. As it flew, roaring mightily, over the English Channel, passengers looked down at a plodding tug, a pudgy craft capable of perhaps eight miles per hour...
...agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive discrimination against Lucky Strikes, the company can push some of its other makes...
...Author. Born in Milwaukee 47 years ago, Felix Riesenberg was educated in the N. Y. Nautical Schoolship St. Mary's, the U. S. S. Chase, and, after eight years at sea, in the engineering school at Columbia. He tried for the North Pole with Explorer Wellman in the balloon, America. He helped build the Catskill Aqueduct and was municipal engineer of the Borough of Queens. Then he superintended the New York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook...