Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the annual deficits ran consistently above three billions, then hit a peak of $4,700.000,000 in fiscal 1936 (year of the Soldiers' Bonus), dropped to $2,707,000,000 in fiscal 1937. Relatively small though the new figure for fiscal 1938 appears, it will be the eighth consecutive deficit-with government revenues only a shade short of the alltime high ($6,695,000,000 in booming 1920 when Wartime taxes were still in effect...
...represented by excerpts from "Die Walkure" and "Die Meistersinger" which includes Wotan's Farewell with the ensuing Fire Music, the Ride of the Valkyries, and the Introduction to the Third Act of "Die Meistersinger." Mahler's Fifth Symphony, only surpassed in size and gargantuan qualities by his Eighth Symphony, is also to be performed. It was composed in the years 1901-02, and has three divisions which are subdivided into five movements. It is hoped that the followers of these two composers will attend the concerts en masse and then hold their peace for the rest of the season...
...sixty-eighth year, Mr. Perkins had been in ill health for two years and had been bedridden since December...
When, on the opening throw-in of the eighth chukker Old Westbury's No. 2, Texan Cecil Smith, cut in abruptly to score, it looked like the end of Greentree's hopes-and it was. Iglehart and Balding succeeded in scoring another goal apiece, and Old Westbury won the match 11-to-6 for its first Open Championship...
...same time it became known that the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet were all technically abolished. Communist soldiers replaced the large red stars on their caps with small white stars, became, with no loss of time or commanders, the Eighth Route Army of the Nationalist Government. Nanking in return was pledged to "introduce democracy in China as soon as the war is over," never to sign away any Chinese territory, and to fight Japan...