Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to experts seventy-eight deciduous trees and shrubs are the principal ingredients of the color spectacle of New England's autumn foliage...
Both girls were enthusiastic about the Charles River and said that this was one feature in which Cambridge had it all over New Haven. "What's that?" they cried as an eight-oared shell flashed past. A single was even more of a curiosity to them...
Since Hollywood's eight major producing companies had only until November 1 to answer the U. S. Department of Justice indictment for monopolistic practices, ostensible purpose of the meeting was to discuss ways and means of meeting this and other major crises, such as restrictions on cinema distribution in Italy and Germany, labor troubles on the West Coast, conduct of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year campaign. Actually, word leaked from Hollywood that the real purpose of the meeting was something else entirely: to consider ways and means of checking anti-Semitism in so far as it affects movie...
...work on the Federal Art Project. To Manhattan, along with his paintings, he sent a written declaration of his love for the great painters, for oil painting and for the female body. More noteworthy than this credo was his challenge to the school in which Discoverer Curry was discovered eight years ago: "I am glad to see that . . . the emphasis on the 'American scene' has diminished. It seemed to me preposterous and presumptuous for an artist to cultivate provincialism deliberately...
Bohemia, the Czech part of the Republic, will have 140 seats in the Assembly, Slovakia 50, Ruthenia ten. In the Senate the three States will have equal strength, eight seats each. A hyphen will probably be inserted into Czechoslovakia, making it "CzechoSlovakia" according to Prague dispatches, but the Ruthenians want the Republic's name changed to "The State of Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians." Other proposed names with important backing this week: "Western Slavia"; "Central Slavia"; "Slavia...