Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similar tornadoes twisted over the face of the land elsewhere last week, all evidently offspring of a large cyclonic disturbance which started over northern Texas and swept northeast. In Arkansas, eight persons were blown to death...
...fashioned people, May Day means flowers, grass, picnics, children, clean frocks. To up-and-doing Socialists and Communists it means speechmaking, parading, bombs, brickbats, conscientious violence. This connotation dates back to May Day, 1886, when some 200,000 U. S. workmen engineered a nationwide strike for an eight-hour...
...Eight days in advance, said M. Judet, the French army was warned by a German deserter who described the gas cylinders already in place in the German lines, and even produced one of the rudimentary gas masks which had been issued to the German troops. This information was brought to General Ferry of the French army, whose division was just about to move out of the line...
...Harvard Freshman crew, rowing its second scheduled race, after defeating the Tech 1932 crew last Wednesday by over five lengths, takes on the Cornell first-year eight this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the mile and three quarters Basin course. Harvard will be on the Cambridge side when the crews line up for the start...
...Harvard shell jumped almost a length at the start, and opened up water gradually at a steady 32 stroke till it had a three length lead at the bridge. Here the water grew rougher, and although both crews dropped the stroke to a 30, the Crimson eight continued to draw gradually ahead, and held its lead in the final sprint, covering the mile and 5-16 in 7 minutes 7 seconds. The engineers were clocked at 7 minutes 25 seconds...