Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVEN professors, seven assistant professors, and eight tutors - twenty-two in all - teach in the Annex. These gentlemen would be overworked, if change of employment were not in itself a recreation...
DEAR SIR, - The Yale University Boat Club do hereby challenge you, the Harvard University Boat Club, to an eight oared, four-mile race, straight away with coxswains, the time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
...paper eight in which the Crew rowed at New London proved, on examination, to be several layers thinner than it was ordered. Waters has offered to build a new boat in exchange, or to make the requisite alteration in the present...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...
Half the hour, - 'twixt eight and nine...