Word: eight
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Sweet Smell of Excess. In Chicago, after eight successful burglaries of two candy stores, Wardell Sharpe, 34, was caught on his ninth try, explained that he kept going back because the shops were convenient to his home...
...proposal to cut the constitutional amendment requirement from two-thirds to one-half of those voting was the only measure that lost. The most yeses, 1091, to only 196 no's, went to the amendment putting representation to the Council on a House basis. The proposal to have eight Council members appointed by the Masters received the slimmest margin...
...Harvard years, however, had been far from futile. It was here that his style and outlook developed as it never had before, and would not again. During his years at Harvard, Wolfe acquired a vast literary background. He read voraciously, eight or ten books a week, even in the periods of his hardest work. Of Widener he wrote: "I wander through the stacks of that great library like some damned soul, never at rest--ever leaping ahead from the pages I read to thoughts of those I want to read." Wolfe possessed an amazing memory, and he was convinced that...
Architectural planning on the new structures has not begun, but, on the basis of space requirements, White estimates that the Behavioral Sciences Building may rise seven or eight stories, about the height of Quincy House...
...behalf of the Development Program, President Jordan will visit eight cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco before next February. He plans to speak before groups of students' parents, friends, and alumnae of Radcliffe...