Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corbeil, Ontario the history-making Dionne quintuplets, who were born two months prematurely, continued to thrive in their eighth week (TIME, June 11). Still kept in incubators they wriggled, stretched, arched their backs, waved their limbs and squeaked for food. Montreal mothers sent them 20 oz. of breast milk daily, which Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe last week began to supplement with tomato juice. Mrs. Dionne, who had injured herself by getting out of childbed too soon, was up and about last week...
...Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water system, is equipped with a one-eighth h.p. motor which forces air up through water coils into a chamber where it is sprayed, dehumidified, washed under pressure. Water for the coils is cooled by the condensing unit which may be installed in a closet, kitchen or basement. Three cabinets can be operated on one condensing unit which...
...climax to a perfect Class Day the Varsity baseball team kept Yale under control yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field and emerged a 3-2 victor despite a dangerous eighth inning. Captain Eddie Loughlin went the distance in this opening game of the 64th annual series and provided a win for an audience of 700 grads and their families...
Yale's remaining marker came in the eighth. It looked as if it was Harvard's day by long odds, and Captain Loughlin began to ease up from the pitcher's box. He passed Williamson, Curtin singled, and Dugan filled the sacks when Charley Nevin had trouble with a grounder. Then Armstrong again caused trouble with his bat. This time it was a tricky bounding grounder that Johnny Adzigian failed to hold on to. In came Williamson, making it Yale 2, Harvard 3. This was the final tally as the Blue went out in order thereafter...
...Author, at a defenseless age, was patted in his pram by the late great Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, but this laying-on of hands produced no precocious poetics. The eighth of a large family (ten) of mixed German, Irish and English blood, Robert von Ranke Graves was born in London (1895), educated at Charterhouse and in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Like many of his English generation he was a battle-scarred veteran when he went up to Oxford (St. John's College) as an undergraduate. Already established as one of the outstanding poets of the War, he turned...