Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination, and the type of examination will be similar to those of previous years. Tentative arrangements provide sets of true-false questions and identity questions to be answered in one hour, and a group of short summaries in "editorial style" not exceeding some 250 words each on eight or ten questions to be selected from a designated list and to be written in two hours. The latter arrangement is intended to replace the "essay topics" that have formed part of previous examinations...
Many consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...Railroadmen prohibited from working more than eight hours a day, except in emergencies; strikes and lockouts illegal, except after 90-day notice; the President empowered to take control of railways in national emergencies...
...Eight years ago Chairman Hemphill died. Davison, the stimulator, was already dead. Arose the question of successor. President Sabin recommended and the directors recalled Mr. Potter (still a Guaranty director) from Guggenheim Bros...
...Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next 33 days he was only 400 miles further. Patriotic Colombians, whose subscriptions had bought his plane, had long since ceased scanning the skies...