Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After their bad start, the 1987 team buckled down to play airtight ball for the last seven frames. A homer in the eighth by McTernen brought in four runs to make the score 10 to 9. Things looked bright for a few minutes, but in the ninth the visitors managed to bring in one more...
Last week in a big, bright room on the eighth floor of its Chicago administration building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association," had been hurling at Montgomery Ward's management insured good attendance. Even the Armour brothers, Philip and Lester, dropped in to pick up a few pointers from Ward's quick-witted President-Chairman Sewell Lee Avery...
...cold weather, the game was called at the end of the eighth. The next game for the Freshmen is on Friday with Lawrence Academy...
...kitchen symphony (Messrs. Metzenger. Veseley, Sayers and Kopp) for which the four strange shoppers-the orchestra's percussion players-dressed up like chefs, stood between a big stove and a crockery-laden table and accurately tapped out note for note the Allegretto from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Oldtimers remembered that Theodore Thomas, father of Chicago's music, put on the same act 29 years ago. That the Orchestra will live to give it again was assured by the donations of last week's guests. At the farewell concert three days later the Chicago's 44th...
Cleveland, whose conservative citizens shuddered with apprehension 33 years ago when the late great Liberal Tom Johnson became Mayor, was host last week to the eighth convention of the Communist Party, U. S. A. More than 3,000 ill-dressed spectators filled Prospect Auditorium when Party Secretary Earl Browder, in the absence of sick Chairman William Zebulon Foster, opened the meeting beneath loops of blood-red bunting and a painting of a worker bursting from his chains. No one without a scarlet party card was admitted to executive sessions, but the party organ, the New York Daily Worker, carried full...