Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure water he drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock. He would not defile good hops with city water. In 1871 he put out 33,512 barrels, and knew that he would be a rich man. He made up his mind to work harder. He had eight children. Every evening, coming home hungry, he tucked his napkin in his neck and filled his stomach with good food. His stein was always refilled several times. When he became fabulously rich a reporter asked him what was the secret of his success. George Ehret smiled vaguely and, with...
Specifically, two men and eight women members of the cult were convicted of having entered the oratory of a priest, the Abbé des Noyers, at Bombon,* and there stripped him naked, bound him to a table and flogged him with knotted ropes. One of the convicted, Mme. Robert, openly exulted that she had been the last to flog the Abbé before he swooned; and her 17-year-old daughter boasted that she had not only taken a hand in flogging the Abbé but had thrown pepper in his eyes...
...provoked the trial was apparently made at the instigation of Mme. Mesmin, who feared and hated him as a more powerful sorcerer than herself. Last week, the Court awarded the significantly small damages of 5,000 francs ($200) to the Abbé des Noyers, sentenced the two convicted males to eight months' imprisonment, imprisoned their eight female accomplices for six months and assessed upon them costs and a fine of 100 francs ($4) each. Since several of the defendants were of more than modest wealth, and since Mme. Mesmin was not ousted from her sanctum at Bordeaux, the persistence...
Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...
Eleven hundred and forty-eight men have been physically examined this year, it is shown by statistics on the Freshman physical examinations, released last night by Dr. A. Worcester '78, Professor of Hygiene, in the University...