Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hadley's device for measuring angular distances was really an octant, employing a graduated arc of one-eighth of a circle. Capt. Campbell enlarged it to one-sixth in 1757 to use it for navigation purposes...
...Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War, with Jockey Silvio Coucci up: the Arlington Classic, year's richest ($88,100) U. S. three-year-old race; by three lengths, with Stepenfetchit second, field horses third and fourth, Top Flight, the favorite, fifth, Faireno eighth; in Chicago...
...South African dominion yielded vastly more gold than any other part of the world, 10,877,777 fine ounces (worth $224,560,439). Second was Canada with 2,693,892 fine ounces, third the U. S., fourth the U. S. S. R., fifth Mexico, sixth Australia, seventh Rhodesia, eighth Japan...
...head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several times fell into the strategic blunder of leading with his right. Schmeling likes to let his opponents work hard in the early rounds, cut them down slowly when they are tired. In the eighth round against Sharkey, he began to increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows, he drove Sharkey around the ring crowded him into the corners, smashed short punches to the side of his jaw. Shar key's left eye became swollen, discolored. Schmeling...
...machine operates (TIME, June 13). How deep into the metal does a gas go, skin-deep or throughout? Dr. Abraham Lincoln Marshall proved?with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...