Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cameraman McAvoy used a Leica camera with a Summar f2 lens, worked with the lens wide open at one-eighth second speed. His film was Du Pont Superior panchromatic, hypersensitized to half again its rated speed by exposing it to fumes of the strongest ammonia obtainable in a closed box for four minutes. Caution to novices: Film so treated should be used within eight hours. After that period it will not only lose its extra sensitivity, but may deteriorate below its original condition...
From his new restaurant, in which the current pastime for reckless Manhattan drunks is urging the waiter to ask the proprietor to throw them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross...
...Francis Hackett came to the U. S. at 17, became a literary journalist, first in Chicago, then in Manhattan, where his weekly pages in The New Republic made town talk for eight years. In 1922 he stopped writing about books, began writing about men. Research for his Henry the Eighth took him six years. On Francis the First he spent five...
...prepared for college at Milton. This year he tied for second place in the University downhill race and was eighth at Dartmouth. Carier, who has headed the skiers hitherto, is a member of the National Geographic expedition that H. Bradford Washburn '33 is leading into the Yukon Territory this winter...
...From the White House to the Capitol went a message urging the Senate to approve U. S. membership in the World Court. It was the eighth message from the fourth successive President to that effect...