Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, when crying Haro was more frequent (Tom's is only the eighth clameur to be raised since 1900), the penalty for losing a case was severe: 24 hours' confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small fine. Twenty years ago, Alfred Machon was fined one shilling for a false clameur (TIME, March 3,1930). As Tom's case rested last week, however, the gloomier greybeards of Guernsey noted with interest that workmen were busy restoring the old castle's long-neglected dungeon...
...second to the current Derby favorite, Your Host, in a race in which the California-bred winner set a new track record for seven furlongs. Last week Trainer Veitch gave Mr. Trouble his final tune-up in competition, sent him out in the mile-and-one-eighth (one-eighth of a mile short of the Derby distance) Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland track. Mr. Trouble drove home in front, three-quarters of a length ahead of Oil Capitol...
...strike . . . and you in your eighth month...
...been a wonderful, strenuous summer, and 13-year-old Birdsall Sweet was just going into the last half of the eighth grade in Beacon, N.Y. But in September, husky, athletic Birdsall suddenly fell ill. After five days he was admitted to a hospital in Poughkeepsie. Like many another youngster in the epidemic year of 1931, Birdsall Sweet had polio...
Crimson sailors came in eighth in the annual spring invitational dinghy regatta held, over the weekend on the Severn River at Annapolis, Maryland. George Washington University won the regatta with 311 points. Harvard had a total of 192 points...