Word: eighths
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Illinois to Hungary. Even in the eighth century, Americans, though facing mainly the challenge of their own Western opportunity, reacted again and again at the popular level to events bearing on freedom and justice in distant lands. In 1849, for example, Americans and Britons alike were sympathetic with the erupting nationalist revolutions in Europe, and particularly indignant about the Habsburgs' brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolution. In September 1849, well before the days when there was a Hungarian bloc anywhere in the U.S., a promising Illinois Congressman named Abraham Lincoln proposed a resolution to a pro-Hungarian mass meeting...
Speculation about the eighth House continued, and the University called a meeting to discuss its "character," and was reported trying to buy land for it. President Pusey, the Masters, and students sleeping eight in a triple room all agreed it was necessary. The chemists and the hygienists wanted buildings, and the astronomers wanted observatories; all WHRB wanted was a broadcasting booth. None of these wishes materialized, but the Advocate got the site and funds for its long-awaited building, which will rise at 21 South Street, next to the H.A.A., probably later this year...
...Yorker by birth and Californian by choice, Ed Rees came to TIME as an office boy at the end of 1941. He was soon off with the Eighth Air Force, dropping bombs on Peenemünde and other targets. He shrugs off his 32 missions over Germany and Occupied France, but the military did not take them so lightly-Rees was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals...
...private province. Nonetheless, there were stirrings of shock, or of joy, that the Longs were making a comeback. Huey's son Russell is an able and respected U.S. Senator from Louisiana; another of Huey's brothers, George Long, is member of Congress from Louisiana's Eighth District. Earl's election put the capstone on Louisiana's monumental living tableau to the memory of Huey...
...Arthur Freeman, played the parts of giant-killers at the biennial intercollegiate chess championship tournament at Columbia last December (26-30). Lyman, who finished seventh out of 26 entrants, defeated Andy Mednis of NYU, the eventual winner of the tournament, and Freeman in turn defeated Lyman to end in eighth place...