Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their cars, to his vast, lofty, stone-floored office in the Palazzo Venezia. There, while a Roman crowd roared applause outside, the four statesmen squiggled their initials. The pact of collaboration is to run for ten years and if (See col. 2) not denounced before the end of the eighth year will continue indefinitely in force, terminating only upon two years notice that one of the signatories wishes to withdraw. Ten minutes after the initialing, Roman newsboys rushed through the streets with extras shrilling "PEACE DECLARED...
Following a traditional custom, 11 yachts in three different classes started from Scotch Caps, off Milton Point, in Rye, New York, last Wednesday evening, in the American Yacht Club's eighth annual overnight race to the scene of the festivities of the Harvard Yale rowing regatta in New London...
...earliest contributor to be a graduate was Edward Everett Hale, Class of 1811, later president of the College, who in 1852 wrote a 40,000 word article on "George Washington" for the eighth edition. The first edition appearing in 1768 describes Cambridge as "a town, about three miles west of Boston; remarkable for a university consisting of three colleges." Since 1870 when 75 Americans contributed, of whom 21 were Harvard men, the influence of this continent has increased so that now the Encyclopedia business is owned by Sears Roebuck and Company, although the offices of the editor-in-chief...
...welterweight championship; by knocking out Champion Young Corbett III in 2 min. 30 sec.; in Los Angeles. ¶ The New York Yankees: a ballgame against Philadelphia, 17 to 11, with three runs in the second inning, one in the third, ten in the fifth, and three in the eighth when Babe Ruth clouted his tenth homer of the season with two men on base; in Manhattan. The Athletics scored all their runs in one inning, the third. Yankee Pitcher Walter Brown fanned 12 men in six and one-third innings...
Last week's case was based on the death of the eighth victim, Arthur Nelson. The Mooney defense hoped that by reviving the case it might make a matter of court record the snarl of perjured testimony which originally helped convict the 50-year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before...