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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Optimism over this year's prospects and pessimism over the case of selecting the eight men to make up the Varsity and 150-lb. shells were expressed last night by Coaches Tom Bolles and Bert Haines at the final Varsity Club crew meeting of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Express Optimism for Spring Rowing Season | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

Victor Ehler, who has been pulling the rope of the Chapel bell every morning since the building was built eight years ago, estimates that he has made the bell ring more than 300,000 times. He always wears gloves, he says, to avoid getting hemp splinters in his hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EHLER, CHAPEL CUSTODIAN, HAS RUNG BELL, 300,000 TIMES | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...game but were unable to hold it in the second half. Moving along rapidly after a 20 to 20 tie at halftime, the Newport boys piled up a large margin which the Woodmen could not overcome. Bill McSweeney and Fran Simpson paced the Crimson attack with nine and eight points respectively, but Campbell of the visitors stole top scoring honors with nine baskets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEES DEFEATED BY Y.M.C.A. QUINT 47 TO 33 | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

Stahl's career started at Illinois where he played baseball, mostly in the infield. Following graduation he spent four years at Stiever High School in Ohio, coaching baseball and football. For the next eight years he was at Ohio State with six of these years being spent as head coach of the Buckeye nine. His teams were always right near the top and one year came within 1/2 a game of the winning Minnesota Gophers, who dominate the Big Ten baseball Conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Baseball Coach Floyd Stahl Expects a Better, Hustling Nine | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...potential "white hope." Most promising youngsters discovered since last summer are a pair of Irishmen, Pat Comiskey and Billy Conn, and a Bohemian named Johnny Paychek (né Pacek). Eighteen-year-old Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. J. has a powerful right-hand punch, has knocked out eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy Conn, 21 and still growing, has a powerful left hook, has defeated five one-time world's middleweight champions. Johnny Paychek, a Des Moines bellhop, is the hope of the Midwest. Onetime national Golden Gloves champion, sedate, violin-playing Johnny Paychek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black-Jack Joe | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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