Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That left him eight hours and forty minutes to devote to pure lucubration. Vag was pleased--this time he'd planned it all very carefully. He remembered his hour exams last year when he'd had to read almost a thousand pages the night before. This year, though, he'd been unusually thorough; he had only one book left...
...evening fell and the final tabulations of the eight-day event came in, Eliot, with 4,537 laps, led the second-place Commuters and Cooperatives by a strapping 2,000 lengths. Whitman Hall, although scheduled as Eliot's partner made only a trivial contribution to the victory. With each of the 15 Eliot watergirls allowed to swim no more than 100 laps a day, their average distance was three miles of open water...
...YORK, Nov. 4--Jim Elder of Canada sped around the course in a faultless ride aboard Isgilde in 30.7 seconds and won the West Point Challenge Trophy as the national horse show began an eight-day run in Madison Square Garden...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...
...Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: "I think the tight money situation will last another six to eight months. Right now merchants in my town are borrowing money for income tax purposes...