Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to figures made public yesterday, nearly eight percent of the books used in the tutorial library of the departments of History, Government, and Economics have been lost during the last two years...
...attractive by the bright prospect of a third win against the Blue. A complete survey of Horween's record since 1926 reveals 17 victories, 13 defeats and two ties; Harvard has scored 508 points to its opponents 322. The new regime started inauspiciously with only three victories out of eight starts. In 1927 the new ideas had taken hold as was shown by the record of four victories; 1928 saw the Crimson score five triumphs and one tie, while it suffered only two defeats. The same record was turned in this fall, but Harvard's schedule...
...Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago), one in Maryland (Baltimore's Bureau of Contraceptive Advice, only one outside of New York using an unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York, one in Cleveland. The conferees pointed with satisfaction to recent endorsements of Birth Control...
...more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas. A. Lindberghs (Anne Morrow) anticipate a blessed event." General John Joseph Pershing, returning to the U. S. from France after eight months of work for the Battle Monuments Commission, said that he contemplated writing his memoirs. Mr. & Mrs. Hiram Edward Manville (asbestos) sailed for Sweden on their new $1,000,000 yacht Hi-Esmaro with the family physician, Dr. Horace Eddy Robinson, to visit their daughter, Estelle, Countess Bernadotte, wife...
...story centers around a group of performing dogs which the tender hearted heroine undertakes to shelter in the absence of their owner, with no better facilities for housing them than a hall bedroom. Eight dogs and a girl in a small bedroom provides an amusing scene, the dogs adding to the entertainment by their somewhat too casual behaviour...