Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Indian Territory Illuminating Co., Cities Service subsidiary, will benefit from the gusher, co-benefactors will be Vince Sudik and his wife, Mary. In 1903 the Sudiks came from Nebraska, claimed and farmed the now-famed plot of land, will collect about one-eighth of the oil profits. Last week Mrs. Sudik was not on hand to see the gusher. She was visiting a hospital where her first grandchild had just been born. Said she: "My good fortune is having such a lovely granddaughter." Vince Sudik, however, announced his early retirement from active agriculture...
...broker, employs detectives. Eight years ago nine men broke into his mansion at Downers Grove, Ill., bound his family, stowed him in a basement vault to smother, stole $20,000 worth of jewelry, $500 in cash, 25 cases of whiskey. Last week Mr. Cutten's detectives caught the eighth of his 1922 assailants, one Simon Rosenberg, the gangleader, in Cleveland. Gloated Mr. Cutten: "Number eight! When I get number nine, this one's brother, I'll be through with...
April 11-Sixty-eighth birthday of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...
April 11?Sixty-eighth birthday of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...
HAILED by critics everywhere as one of the most brilliant discussions of poetry upon its first appearance in 1919, this volume from the facile pen of Professor Lowes reaches its eighth printing with the current issue from the press of the Houghton Mifflin Co. Despite the fact that the various chapters were delivered as Lowell Lectures in 1916, they have lost none of the timeliness of their first appearance, and the volume remains one which the student of poetry cannot afford to neglect...