Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frazier of North Dakota on the question of patronage rewards. And who are these Republican insurgents to whom the President bows with gracious gestures, with whom Democrats and Republicans alike would be friends in perilous political moments? In number, they are six in the present Senate and will be eight in the 70th session-plus a fringe of some half dozen semi-insurgents. In personality, they are as follows...
...made possible only by the gift of $55,000 from the National Geographic Society. An expedition to East Africa was financed by a private individual. Fifty thousand dollars was gathered by subscription to purchase a valuable insect collection. The private means of the Institute permitted the publication of only eight short papers in the Smithsonian series. The National Art Gallery is squeezed into a part of the museum wholly inadequate to permit of growth and occupying space needed for specimens. The United States is the only country in the world without a national gallery worthy of the name, yet Congress...
...recently been placed on the list of intra-mural sports. Three leagues have been organized. Six quintets, two from the Business School, three from the Law School, and one from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will form the first group. The second league is made an of eight fraternity teams. The last consists of the four class teams...
Leaving Boston on Saturday night, December 25, the University Instrumental Clubs will start its Christmas concert tour. Stopping at eight cities in the south and north-west, the members will be entertained at dances, and full privileges have been extended them by clubs in the various cities. The program includes a concert for every night during the eight day trip. Special features, including trick dancing acts, piano specialities, and singing will be given...
...under the auspices of the Canadian Alpine Club, a party of eight mountaineers, numbering in their party Mr. Hall, started up the treacherous slopes of Mount Logan. In the latter part of June they succeeded in reaching the summit and thus achieved the distinction of being the first to conquer the gales and icy blasts of Mount Logan, 19,800 feet in altitude and the second highest peak in North America...