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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After discarding from the list of 35 Italian cardinals the 15 who are too old and the dozen Cardinals of the Curia, who have little chance of being elected, the conclave will probably elect one of the eight cardinal bishops of residential sees, according to Professor La Piana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Church Professor Says Pro-Fascist Cardinal Unlikely to Be Next Pope | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

Winning seven out of eight matches, the Varsity grapplers outclassed M. I. T. last Tuesday to win by a lopsided 25 to 3 count. Tech's only points came from Power's decision over Bill Tyng, who was wrestling his second varsity bout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN SMOTHER TECH WITH 25 TO 3 BARRAGE | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...productions are those of the two Nibelungen Ring cycles which attract some 8,000 listeners annually. No light-headed cafe socialites are they. Wagner's Nibelungen epic consists of four ponderous operas (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) totaling 14 hours of music & drama, requires tremendous listening endurance. But for eight years every Metropolitan Ring cycle has been sung to a sold-out house. Last week the first of this year's cycles opened. For a continuous two hours and a quarter (Rheingold has no intermission) the intrepid listeners took it and liked it. Only one woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Program Notes | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner got on a bus one day last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winnie on a Bus | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Gaining the upper-hand early in the game, the Yardling basketball team smothered Tabor Academy 36 to 26 in a game played at Marion Saturday afternoon. The encounter marked the twelfth win out of thirteen starts for the Freshmen and smashed a record of eight consecutive victories for the Marion hoopsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Hoopsters Smother Tabor Academy Five 36 to 26 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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