Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth of all oil produced. The great Gushing Oil Pool had been discovered adjoining his land...
...Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...
Trudging home last week through a cool birch forest, peasants of the Polish town of Ciechanow heard for the eighth time a horrible sound-the agonized scream of a little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...
...Saturday, with Bill Lincoln pitching until the latter part of the eighth, then relieved by Laughing, the Varsity threatened only in the first frame before going down under a barrage of 11 hits poled out by Messrs. Dean Henry Chauncey, Johnny Chase, Frank Cutts, and company, of the Grads...
...game went on in this fashion until the end of the eighth, when the 1937 sluggers had managed to cut Andover's lead to 9-8. In the last half of the ninth, the hard-hitting Harvard players started another rally. Malcolm McTernen hit a triple; he was followed by Herbert Regan who knocked out a long double to score one more run; next came George Blackwood, the here of the game, who hit the second double of the inning to score the winning run. The game ended 10-9 in favor of the Crimson nine...