Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame Congress too early in the session and talking over its head to the lobbyists behind the legislators, President Hoover had "deplored" the dissension among the farmers themselves, urged them to compromise their differences. Senator McNary was blown around to President Hoover's view, but his committee voted eight to six to ignore the President's objections and argue out debentures in full senate. President Louis John Taber of the Grange, good Hoover friend though he was, said: "Our opinion as to the workability of the debenture plan has not been changed...
...pound eight, the race with the Technology Freshmen will be the only contest before the Yale race which will be held May 18 for the 150-pound crews...
When the first year men meet M. I. T. the Engineers will have had their first trails of the season for they row Princeton over a mile and three quarters course this afternoon. The 1932 eight will also oppose Cornell on May 11 and will then enter a period of intensive training prior to the Yale race at New London on June...
...ships, 20 feet long, with a five foot beam, and costing $3600 each. They will be used for coaching on week days, the larger boats being reserved for following races in the Basin. The addition of these two Greenport boats brings the Harvard coaching feet to a total of eight launches...
...month of May, has under way an experimental and theoretical investigation of signalling by sound. This work is being done in connection with the determination of the efficiency of fog horns, and in reference to the transmission of sounds under water. Such is the importance of this work that eight officers of the U. S. Navy are at present stationed at the Cruft Laboratory to study communication engineering...