Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find a new partner to assist him. Onetime partner in the firm of Cass Gilbert Inc. was John R. Rockart. In New York's Supreme Court last week he brought suit, claiming that during Cass Gilbert's lifetime he had an arrangement guaranteeing him "more than one-eighth" of the gross architectural commissions on which he worked. Since Architect Gilbert's death in May, 1934, John Rockart insists that he was in complete charge of the Supreme Court Building operations, hence deserves one-fourth of the profits on the building during Cass Gilbert's lifetime, three...
This year he has taken up jumping and done very well, taking eighth place in the Williams Carnival with jumps of 75 and 85 feet. In the downhill line, he came in second in the University race at Pinkham earlier this season...
...downhill race was held over the short, fairly fast Hazen Hill course, in which Bob Shaw led his team mates by taking eighth place...
...desultory is this job that during the 26 years of George V's reign not all the postal vans were equipped to correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make a big V. I should not like to be mistaken for another George"-the reprehensible characteristics of the first "Four Georges" having been popularly dwelt upon by William Makepeace Thackeray...
This is commonly cited as the outstanding "Socialist" expression by Edward VIII and it was stretched at the time by some Laborites into an indication that "King Edward the Eighth will be England's first Socialist King!" Happily last week the nationwide coal strike which has been angrily brewing this winter as miners demanded a daily increase of two shillings was settled as the miners agreed to take one shilling-an auspicious economic opening for His Majesty's reign...