Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have, though eight hours from Sao Paulo, Capital of the State of Sao Paulo, available very splendid Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo papers with current events (written in Portuguese, not Spanish, as even yet some poor misguided Americans think...
Rosika Schwimmer was born in Hungary in 1877. She became famed as a pacifist. Her eloquence induced Henry Ford to undertake his Peace-Ship trip in 1915. Once, under Count Karolyi's regime (1919) she was Hungary's minister to Switzerland. Eight years ago she settled permanently in the U. S., set up residence in Illinois. Two years ago she applied for U. S. citizenship, Question 22 of the application asks if the applicant, as a citizen, would bear arms in defense...
...that it did, that Harry Canter had criminally libeled Mr. Fuller, now out of office. The court would hear no evidence whereby Canter sought to interpret or justify the words on his placard. Judge Robert F. Raymond gave this lecture: "This man is of the working class and works eight hours a day or less. I am of the leisure class and work 16 hours a day. . . . The sentence will not be as severe as it would be if a rich and prominent man were here as defendant...
...Brown University last week the annual necktie parade of freshmen ended with eight men in jail, 21 injured, two shot. Yale freshmen set fire to the august Yale fence, broke campus lights, tore down a locked gate which barred exit to the street, yanked trolleys from poles, heckled policemen. Iowa University students shied eggs at the home of Paul E. Belting, director of athletics, whom they held responsible for their removal from...
...eight of the last nine annual meets of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, a track team from California has come out on top. Last year and the year before the winner was Stanford. Last week, on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, it was Stanford again, with 45 3/8 points, the highest total since...