Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many an observer has commented on the likelihood of Junior Justice Stone's making, sooner or later, the one judicial step higher that remains for him. It is well within probability that President Hoover, especially if he is an eight-year President, will have the appointing of the next Chief Justice. There have been ten Chief Justices. Everyone since 1800 has died in office. Eight of them (Jay, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase, Waite, Fuller. Taft) were called from outside the Supreme Court...
Laboring in the wilderness on a tract of land eight by 27 miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...
...enthusiasts were jubilant. The British team was leading in four matches, three were tied, and only Leo Diegel of the U. S. was ahead. Sleek, droop-jowled Walter Hagen, British open champion and captain of the U. S. team, and Britain's cadaverous Captain George Duncan, had halved eight out of the first nine holes. Then Duncan had gone ahead to a five-hole lead. "Sure, I'll win. I always do," was the Hagen attitude. But dour George Duncan won, ten up and eight to go. Best medal scores (par was 71) : Diegel, 65, second day; Diegel...
...Charles River last week, three Princeton crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...
...Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared over Karachi and landed. Head winds had eaten up its gasoline on the last half of the journey. Had the plane carried a radio...