Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northampton, first of its name in the U. S. Navy, and the Houston, second of its name, are the sixth and seventh of eight light cruisers authorized in 1924, laid down in 1928. Six hundred feet long, 65 feet broad, displacing 10,000 tons, they carry nine 8-inch guns, three to a turret. Each ship will be manned by 597 officers...
...find an organization that could do the work. Evidently the American idea of doing big things in a big way appealed to the Soviet representatives. The job has come to an American concern. "However, it did not come overnight. We have been working more than eight months on this proposition." From bustling but incurably old-fashioned Nishni Novgorod flashed details of how the proposition was finally put through by Austin's eager, resourceful Executive Vice President George C. Bryant Jr., sire of three daughters and a son who returned to their Cleveland school last week after summering near Pontiac...
...fifty-seventh council and the tenth annual assembly of the League of Nations got under way at Geneva last week with world interest focused almost solely on the newest one of the eight prime ministers present...
...Moslem version of the affray could not be learned, but Jews told of fleeing headlong through the streets, dodging into houses, making what resistance they could while the Arabs battered down doors, put bullets indiscriminately among the Jews and ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have had "no weapons except their household furniture." The Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum plant at Safed was reported burnt out, gutted. Despatches estimated...
...Twenty-eight States provide legislation covering supervision of music, conduct in dance halls, protecting minors...