Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week's call for temporary bids as the "eighth distinct and conflicting policy adopted by the Post Office Department within . . . six weeks...
Another art show by non-professional artists escaping from their environment is this week's eighth annual exhibition of the New York Physicians' Art Club at the Academy of Medicine. Sole medical subject in the show was medical in name only-Vitamins, a composition of a lemon, oranges, a grapefruit, potatoes, filled whiskey and milk bottles, by Club Secretary Dr. Henry Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf...
...Higher Critics are wrong in alleging that the Bible is based on oral tradition current in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries B.C. Sir Charles's discoveries show that alphabetical writings in archaic Hebrew, some paralleling Biblical passages, were set down in 1400 B.C., in the time of Moses...
...Petersburg, Fla. last week, the score was 3-to-2 in favor of the New York Yankees, playing an exhibition game against the Boston Braves. In the eighth inning, Boston's famed Shortstop Rabbit Maranville, who in the fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie...
...highest squash tennis court in the world, on the 32nd floor of Manhattan's Shelton Hotel, Frank Ward, Manhattan's City Athletic Club professional, playing Thomas lannicelli, last week won the world's open squash tennis championship, for the eighth year...