Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forty-seventh state: New Mexico. Forty-eighth: Arizona. *The site of Oklahoma City was opened to settlement on April 22, 1889. By night it had a population of 10,000 under tents. By 1910 it had 62,205 inhabitants, was the State's biggest and most prosperous city. Even more phenomenal was the growth of Tulsa whose 1,390 inhabitants multiplied 13-fold between 1900 and 1910. Score to date: Oklahoma City, 185,389; Tulsa...
...Francisco, the Summer Symphony was ready to open its eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...
...dubbed "Golders" by London correspondents, wrote in succession seven statements. These were carried one after the other by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain into another room. There they were rejected one after another by the U. S. Delegation's acting fiscal expert James P. Warburg. The eighth draft he passed. It was transmitted to the President by Professor Raymond Moley who proved, last week, a great disappointment to the Conference. Delegates had hoped they could get down to business with him and really negotiate. Instead Dr. Moley. bland and self-possessed, talked courteously with everyone but made...
...indubitably won the first round, been outboxed in the next two, come on fast till the sixth and then traded punches carelessly till the fight ended: 'The decision was the surprise of my life. . . . Honestly, I thought I was so far ahead that I coasted in the eighth and ninth, did not extend myself in the tenth. . . ." Said Ross: 'I fought just as I planned. I coasted myself in those closing rounds...
...Sandy Somerville, Canadian holder of the U. S. title-played their match to the biggest gallery of the week, 3,000. Dunlap was two up at the sixth. Scott holed a fair-sized putt to win the seventh, squared the match with a smashing eagle 3 on the long eighth. At the 15th green Scott was 4 up and Dunlap was out of the tournament...