Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hadley, Edwin Marshall--b. Peoria, Ill. Oct. 14, 1872, eighth in lineal descent from Edward Fitz Randolph, from Nottinghamshire to N. E. 1630. With others organized the Dudley Coffee Co. (importers) and the Ceylon Planters Tea Co. (and many others) One of organizers Ill. Reserve Militia. Chicago Boy Scout Committeeman. Winner many athletic trophies. Contbr, to mags., orator, after dinner speaker. Republican. Reformed Episcopalian...
While Yale was swamping the hitherto unbeaten Navy mermen at New Haven to clinch its eighth consecutive championship of the Intercollegiate League, the University swimming team fought its way to a 43-28 victory over Pennsylvania on Saturday. Harvard, in its second year of intercollegiate swimming, will thus face Yale on Wednesday, March 9, in the Carnegie pool with a clean record of eight wins...
...rich man dies. He is not celebrated for piety. Indeed he may frequently have broken the third Commandment (swearing), or the fourth (breaking the Sabbath), or the seventh (adultery), or the eighth (stealing), or the tenth (covetousness). Nevertheless his family desires a fine funeral, complete with eulogy. So the parson polishes up a sonorous speech, hunts for apt quotations...
...United States and from 46 foreign countries or United States possessions. The ranking of the states shows the first six places unchanged, with Massachusetts leading by a large margin, New York second, Pennsylvania third, Ohio fourth, New Jersey fifth, and California sixth. Connecticut has moved up from eighth to seventh place, dislodging Illinois; Missouri has moved up from eleventh to ninth place, and Michigan and Maine are tied at tenth...
...foreign countries and United States possessions on the list, three, Abyssinia, Peru, and the Virgin Islands, are newcomers, and ten of last year's list have dropped out. Canada is as usual first, China second, Hawaii third, England fourth, France fifth, Japan sixth, Porto Rico seventh, India eighth, and Germany ninth...