Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first victory of the season, the Freshman baseball team overwhelmed the St. Anselms nine by a 22 to 6 score knocking the visitors first pitcher out of the box in the first inning when Harvard scored eight runs with five hits one of which was a home run by W. B. Wood...
...present little is known of the relative merits of the two second Freshman crews. The Harvard eight has acquitted itself creditably in the daily sprints which it has had with the regular Freshman crew, but it is considerably lighter than the Technology boat...
...Alaskan salmon, however, is leaping this April-May not into a waterfall but into round tin cans, neatly sealed and labeled. These round cans, each of them containing one pound of salmon flesh, are filled in 135 canneries in Alaska and in 64 in Washington, Oregon, California. Forty-eight cans are packed in a case. In 1928 the canneries turned out nearly 7,000,000 cases at about $9 per case (circa $60,000,000 worth). In 1927 about 40% less salmon jumped into cans than in 1926 or 1928. This was no surprise to salmon packers, who know that...
...disease, pneumonia and even leprosy people. If their demands for public attention and support have made the undiscerning U. S. suppose that tuberculosis was diminishing in this country, they last week, through the National Tuberculosis Association averred that it has been increasing in at least the larger cities. Thirty-eight cities last year recorded 24,471 deaths, 430 more than in 1927. One softening of the picture was that those same cities increased their populations during 1928. So the death rate for 1928 was the same as for 1927, namely...
...Eight years ago Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger wrote a book, Tuberculosis and How to Combat it, upon the solicitation of patients at his Monrovia, Calif., sanatorium.* His philosophy of treating the disease for 28 years has included psychology with therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures...