Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Censor Wilkinson was shown the March of Time's eighth British edition. What chiefly caught his attention were the 651 feet which traced the course of His Majesty's Government's attempt to keep Italy out of Ethiopia and uphold the League of Nations as an instrument for international peace. Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet...
Last week, after calculations of its orbit, Harvard announced that the comet was approaching Earth, had already increased in brightness from the ninth magnitude to the eighth. Now 120,000,000 miles distant, it will come within 20,000,000 miles (less than one-quarter of the distance to the Sun) before receding. At its nearest approach late in July, it will have reached the sixth magnitude, will be the first naked-eye comet since...
This is the eighth of a series of articles on the graduate schools dealing with the profession represented by the School and the School itself...
Thus in the eighth inning one of the "plays of the year" pulled Dick Walsh out of an embarrassing situation, while for the rest, yesterday, the tall southpaw set down the Tufts batters with four hits, nine strike outs, and a 3-1 defeat...
...fall of 1934 the Mitchellmen played Waseda in Nippon on which occasion the Americans were buried 17-2. At the time of next month's encounter the Orientals will be winding up a schedule which calls for games at Boston College, Thursday, June 4, Providence the seventh, Yale the eighth, Princeton the tenth, and Boston University the thirteenth...