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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daybreak Sheriff H. C. Hinton and a posse of eight with bloodhounds started looking for Negro Wilder McGowan, 24. A crowd of Wiggins men watched them start. Toward noon, while Sheriff Hinton and his men were looking for McGowan at the Ten-Mile sawmill where he used to work, the Wiggins town siren sounded. Sheriff Hinton knew what that meant. The mob had found McGowan sleeping under a truck at his grandmother's house. Afterold Mrs. N identified him, they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 7 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Saved? | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...wholesale cremation. A feature of the Southern California climate rarely mentioned by that city's energetic Chamber of Commerce is the peculiar haze visible on most autumn days. The haze is caused by smoke from fires in the dry. scrubby brush that grows as much as eight feet high over the sandy hills behind the city. Brush fires, unlike real forest fires, are easily extinguished and rarely do much more than annoy the mountain rabbits and keep CCC boys out of trouble. Sometimes, however, they burn down to the edges of roads or cultivated land. Last week, a stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Holocaust | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Ferdinand (Walt Disney). Munro Leaf's and Robert Lawson's famed floraphile bull,* exhibiting his languid individualism in eight minutes of ingratiating Technicolor cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Snow Train of the Boston and Maine Railroad makes its first regular trip of the season tomorrow, leaving the North Station at eight o'clock in the morning bound for Lincoln, North Woodstock, and Campton, New Hampshire, with its passengers destined for the Cannon Mountain Tramway. The return trip will leave Lincoln at 5:30 o'clock, running express to Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST SUNDAY SNOW TRAIN TO TRAMWAY TOMORROW | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

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