Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-one American colleges, including Harvard and Radcliffe, will send delegates to the eighth annual session of the Model League of Nations, to be held at Mt. Holyoke College on March 8 and 9, it was announced by Raymond Dennett '36, chairman of the Harvard delegation, following a meeting of the Executive Committee of the League at Radcliffe yesterday afternoon...
...quote from the New York Times of Tuesday, January eighth, part of a statement made by R. J. Gill, "Richard 'the Lion Hearted' Harlow makes men out of mice"-and who knows, that may be just what he'll be up against...
Power. Only one-eighth of the Mississippi River system's potential electric power is harnessed. Only one Mississippi Valley farm in 16 is served by power lines. The Valley's present power map shows "a crazy patchwork of operating areas and a mass of independent, unrelated generating units." Remaking that map, the Committee would bring cheap electricity to every home by Federal coordination of all power transmission not only in the Valley but in the entire U. S. Lining up with the Roosevelt "yardstick" policy, the Committee was nonetheless careful to point out that such unification would...
Behind the blare of retail trade marched the solid indices of industry. Electric power output last week was 8% above the same week of 1933 and last fortnight touched a 200-week high. Steel production inched upward for the eighth consecutive week to 32.7% of capacity. That still meant losses for the industry but the price of scrap steel, a good key to steel's future, jumped to $13 per ton, up $3 from the autumn low. Building supply companies, aided by the Government's remodeling drive, reported sales up as much as 150%. American Telephone & Telegraph added...
...acre and one eighth acquired in Newtowne during 1637 the town, its name changed to Cambridge on May 2, 1638, added two and a quarter acres to the College Yard...