Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committed to the support and enforcement of the law. We are about to have such an administration. It would seem rather obvious, at least, to one who is not scared lest the new administration might succeed that the thing to do is to give it a chance. If, after eight years of sincere effort by a friendly administration, there is no marked improvement it will be time to consider a change...
...eight games played during the first half of the season the University team has won four, lost three, and tied. In the scoring column Harvard has rung up a total of 37 points to its opponents 14. Of the games Harvard has lost, all three were decided by the margin of a single goal. The University Club six won in a 4 to 3 contest, Toronto downed the Crimson 3 to 2, and the Green sextet won out in Hanover by a 2 to 1 margin...
...reported, further, that the Museum was badly under-staffed, having only eight employees, while inquiry showed that museums of not more than half our size usually kept from three to four times that number of workers actively employed. Contacts with outside scientists and with other institutions and museums, which are essential to progress, have been very largely allowed to drop. The Museum has relapsed into a state of isolation which is regrettable. The reciprocal loans for purposes of study, which are universal among museums, should now be encouraged, under proper precautions, and every effort should be made to enlist...
Last week there was an agitation in Boston for a burning. Not for witch burning was the urge, but for check burning. As everyone knows, Alvan Tufts Fuller, recently retired Governor of Massachusetts, never accepted any salary for his eight years of Governorship, Lieutenant-Governorship. Checks were given him totalling $56,000. He saved them as mementos, never cashed them. This he was able to do because he is a millionaire, owns the Packard Motor Car Co. of Boston...
...high wages, profit sharing with employes (in this he was a leader long before it received general publicity) and high standards of living. He believes in and sets an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth...