Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan Collection of Manuscripts is the only one of its kind and scope in this country; none but the great libraries and cathedral treasuries of Europe contain such splendid works, covering nearly every school of illumination, from the eighth century to the end of the Gothic...
...natural history interspersed with medicine, and a Greek, believed to have been written by the emperor's scribes in Constantinople. The story then begins with the first revival of the arts under Charlemagne, shown in the ancient Rheims Gospel and the "Golden Latin Gospels, called "of Henry the Eighth." Both being of the ninth century, are in Byzantine style, the latter all in letters of burnished gold on purple vellum, is among the most beautiful and important documents here. Of two centuries later, with Byzantine traits still persisting, are the German Gospels from Salzburg...
Proctor Avon pitched eight innings for the Crimson and his place was taken by Campagna in the eighth. The Purple also used two pitchers. Many Crimson runners were left on base, and the team failed to capitalize on Holy Cross' four errors...
...field twice for a few seconds each time, the crowd in Worthington Valley, standing or sitting on the rolling slopes above the course, see the whole race in the valley below. Last week they saw the field take the jumps without mishap until Mullah went down at the eighth fence. They saw a tragedy when Trouble Maker, record-holder for the course, one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. for the last five years, stumbled at the 17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth's big, chestnut 12-year...
...formal protest of the umpires' decision on a ground rule, the Varsity gained a 6-4 victory over the Tigers Saturday at Soldiers Field. This action, unprecedented in the history of the Eastern intercollegiate Baseball League, was occasioned by the officials' ruling that Adzigian's wild throw in the eighth had gone into the crowd, and that the two Princeton men who had scored were allowed only two bases...