Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dancer Argentinita this similarity of names has been a jinx. When, eight years ago, she made her U. S. debut as a featured dancer with Lew Leslie's "International Revue" in Manhattan, Manhattanites ignorantly thought she was trying to cash in on La Argentina's reputation. Her U. S. appearances were pretty much of a flop...
Twenty minutes later the membrane became thinner at one point, and two gobs of yellowish jelly ("polar bodies") were pushed out. Then the cell became furrowed, but cell division did not actually take place, and the egg was kept alive for only eight hours...
Nobody was surprised that markets should shoot off some fireworks after the first notable Republican success in eight years. But capitalistic exuberance was not solely responsible. Last week's market rise began before the voting, was stimulated by good business news on every side. Samples...
...creased from 234,000 to 304,000 between 1929 and 1935 while the number of chain stores decreased 8.3%. In A. & P.'s case there is a profit of between one and three per cent which it takes away from communities; however, it sells its foods at from eight to ten per cent under independent competitors, hence gives the community a net saving of from five to nine per cent...
...braved the elements, and countless thousands listened by the fireside, rain, that great leveler of unequal teams, made an underdog Bulldog into a very stubborn mutt indeed. Up to the middle of that last canto, the Elis, led by their great Sophomore quarterback, Ray Anderson, had piled up eight first downs, while the Crimson cohorts had been able to negotiate only three...