Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow officers reached the ship in a speedboat, it had risen again, upside down, with wings and tail torn off. The wreckage was towed ashore and the dead body of Lieut. Brinton removed from the tail of the fuselage, where the 'shock had wedged it. He was the eighth Schneider Cup pilot to be killed in Schneider Cup trials and elsewhere...
...deals marked the eighth and ninth acquisitions made by Atlas since last October. President of the company is a quiet, modest man of 39 who is considered one of the ablest men in the country yet is as obscure as his company. He is Floyd Bostwick Odium (pronounced: Oddlum) whose other chief interests are his vice-presidency of Electric Bond & Share and his vice-chairmanship of its big unit. American & Foreign Power Co. Seldom in the public prints, he was written up two years ago for conducting the "most expensive telephone call," London-New York, 95 min., $1,425. Slim...
Anders Gram, Danish farmer, had seven children,, was about to have an eighth. The night he should have been home, business took him to the fair. The children were sent to their grandmother's nearby; all the dreadful night long till the end they were out of it, but some of them guessed what was happening, all of them felt it. Mother Anne was having a hard time, had known she was going to, but she would not let them send for the doctor because she had dreamed that would be fatal. Her only helpers were the servants...
...elder Ogden's three children, Gladys married Banker Henry Carnegie Phipps. When the eighth Earl of Granard took Beatrice to wife in 1909, the New York Times gave the story front-page display. Ogden Jr. went to Harvard and upon his graduation (1904), much to the surprise of his family, took a law course at Cambridge. Even more surprised was his family when he began to practice his profession in New York. When he went into Republican ward politics in New York City, his kin threw up their hands in social horror. Later he explained: "I was possessed...
Home in Manhattan from their Nairobi plantation with another series of animal films arrived Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, naturalists de luxe. Their live importations: one cheetah, two monkeys, two chimpanzees, three gorillas (the seventh, eighth and ninth now resident in the U. S.), two red-fezzed Uganda boys, Manuel and Diosaner, who scoop up their gravy in their hands, are startled by ice cream...