Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problems of Admission to College" will be the subject of a radio address this evening by Dr. Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Harvard Committee of Admissions, at eight o'clock. over the non-commercial shortwave station WIXAL, of Boston, on 6.04 megacycles. This is one of a series arranged by Harvard on the problems of college life...
Arrested with Tanenzapf were eight of his associates, including one Alexander George Johannides, who, listed by Pathé as recipient of large payments for "inventions," told police he had never invented anything. Because of the long interval between Pathé's bankruptcy and the disclosure of its president's business technique, and because Pathé's Tanenzapf had often entertained members of the Chamber of Deputies at dinners and previews, the French press promptly scented another Stavisky scandal...
Since September the first eight Nieman Fellows have been following their collective nose for knowledge into Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, libraries, professorial dens. (A ninth, Irving Billiard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start next term.) As a combination managing editor and wet nurse they have able Poet-Journalist Archibald MacLeish, whose official title is "Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...
Curator MacLeish sees that the Fellows get reserved press-box seats at Harvard Stadium games, observes how their eight wives and eleven children bear up under Boston's climate. He also arranges and presides at weekly lively dinners where Fellows hobnob with journalistic guests and Harvard bigwigs, get shaken out of their grooves. Widow Nieman, who had a taste for gin, would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After...
...spilled a cup of hot tea on his legs. Swallowing his pain, he quickly picked up the thread of his comments on his hostess' art collection. When a few minutes later she asked how he felt, little Thomas answered: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." At eight he wrote his Compendium of Universal History, a record of leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner of the Gideon Society). At twelve, with...