Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semi-final tilt with Squadron A. Harvard had the upper hand throughout and practically turned the game into a rout in the final two chukkers. Gerry also led the scoring in this game with eight goals, Which T. B. Glynn ocC scored four. Captain Clark besides counting three times played sensationally on the defense...
Calvin Coolidge retired from the Presidency because he felt that no man could, in that office, give the people the best service for longer than eight years. He had been told that the Kansas City nomination was his for the taking. He felt that his re-election was "assured." Yet, obedient to a desire to get back to the people, he said, "I-do-not-choose-to-run" in South Dakota and followed that up by despatching his secretary to the Republican National Convention to tell the leaders of unpledged State delegations not to vote...
...difficult to conceive how one man can successfully serve the country for a term [as President] of more than eight years...
...Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped out of his boat, forgot it, and set to work designing another boat to go even faster. His first racer was a panting dinghy that the experimental Gar teased up to eight miles an hour by squirting raw gasoline into the air bell of the motor with an oil can. His latest, before the careening flash of last week, was the beautifully designed Miss America VI that dove in the Detroit River last September at an unofficial speed...
...bill provides for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states. From each district four Rhodes scholars will be chosen annually. Thus, as Cecil Rhodes desired, 96 U. S. students will receive scholarships every three years...