Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic said to Mr. Mitchell. The quoter bald, pink-cheeked Solicitor Mitchell himself, sole witness in the case to date. The child, as everyone knew, was two-Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, now a ward in Chancery. The "fantastic sum" later named by Solicitor Mitchell was $5,000,000, about one-eighth of the esti value of Countess Barbara's fortune...
...flash experienced Pilot Walter Bullock cut his master switch to prevent fire. For 200 feet the ship furrowed along, straight for a 75-foot canyon, then hit a scrub oak, swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger, a woman, was hurled clear, died an hour later in a Billings hospital. Pilot Bullock, shaken but unhurt, was amazed. "It just didn't seem to pick up, once we got in the air," he said...
...told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such...
...raindrop falling on this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...
...eighth inning Harvard recovered from its lethargy when Shean, drawing a pass, legged it for third as Johns boosted a two bagger close to the foul line in left field. Lupieh walked, but all three were stranded when Jubitz fauned pinch hitter Bacon and Grondahl, and then forced Hoye to drive out to Loveday at second...