Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bingham and the others will speak next Tuesday morning, the opening day of the paper's eighth annual forum in the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The room will hold nearly 5,000, and all the speeches will be broadcast over a national hookup...
Career: The eighth child of Galena's postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer...
...record for swimming San Francisco's Golden Gate (about a mile and an eighth) is 20 min., 44 sec. A few weeks ago the Olympic Club's Distance Swimmer Leslie Godfrey ("Buster"') Olds decided to have a shot at this 18-year-old mark. Horse Trainer Ritchie Roberts boasted that his 12-year-old, five-gaited horse, Blackie, could do better, made...
...Fewer than one-third of women born since 1910 and only one-eighth of men were without sex experience at marriage, compared to nearly nine-tenths of the women and one-half the men born before 1890. If this trend continues at the same rate virginity at marriage will approach the vanishing point in about 20 years. Virginal couples have slightly higher chances for a happy marriage than others...
...lettermen returning are Captain Roswell Brayton, Bill Tuttle, who placed eighth in the triangular meet with Yale and Princeton, and Peabody Gardner, a Senior who captained his Freshman cross country team...