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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stripped of their grey fiannel pants (which were replaced by ones which matched their coats), their dirty shoes, and their bow ties, which were both also replaced with a view to obscuring any identification with their Alma Mater, eight Seniors joined local Republican Vote-chasers Tuesday afternoon by volunteering to resurrect countless sequestered but registered as Republicans by some all-pervading act of Providence or the Republican City Committee and drive them to the polls...

Author: By John T. Mccutcheon jr., | Title: Disguised Students Canvassing for Republican Votes Find Ignorance of "Dat Guy Harvard," Support of Thalberg | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

...minutes, another ground ball from center skidded past McClure. Jack was getting used to it by this time, and recovered. A beautiful goal-line boot by McClure was taken by Hindle and run back to the 20. After Hindle snared an eight-yard pass, Kirkland took the ball on a punt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Tie Deacons O-O in House Playofr | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

While a doughty little band of Princeton scientists set out to investigate the reported catastrophe, in Harlem the godly gathered in prayer. Eight hundred and seventy-five panic-stricken people phoned the New York Times alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Boo! | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...ruins of Khmer civilization, of which Angkor Wat is the best known. Among economists, Indo-China is equally famous as one of the world's worst-run colonies. For a year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Spain | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Trumpeters and saxophone artists in the Houses emphasize the hours from eight to ten every evening for their experiments with the intricacies of their respective instruments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROUCH | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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