Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restate his case. It did not differ from the one his father, as a State Supreme Court Justice, had previously upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested it was after 5 p. m. The courtroom was fetid...
Last year in the University race, Carter set a new record and in the Dartmouth Carnival he took fourth in the downhill and eighth in the slalom...
Like a swarm of insects attracted by spilled sugar, 437 airplanes of all shapes and sizes last week buzzed into Miami for the eighth annual shindig known as the All-American Air Maneuvers. Incidents...
Most important tariff cuts by Canada included halving the duty on agricultural machinery, reductions of 25% to 80% on other machinery, putting all tractors on the free list, 25% to 50% reduction for meat, duty free oranges during four months (January through April), half off for grapefruit, one-eighth to one-quarter off the automobile tariff, similar cuts on electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles...
...part of the revue for special comment. Of course, Bert Lahr and Cliff Edwards are good, the former at his best in the song "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You." Cliff Edwards scores two smashes--as Mussolini in the song "Boondoggling," and as Henry the Eighth in a skit...