Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airman William E. Boeing's Porter's Mite: the $70,000 Belmont Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-old thoroughbreds; defeating George Widener's Eight Thirty by a nose; at Belmont Park...
...field, 500 acres to be "made" with fill dredged from the river bottom and graded off shore eminences. Conceived as a model for future airport improvement throughout the country, Washington National Airport will have four 5,000 foot runways each 150 to 200 feet wide, providing unobstructed approach from eight directions...
Abstract & Shiny. At the Greenwich Village A.C.A. Gallery of Herman Baron, patron of proletarians, an exhibition of work by eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure...
Asked what kind of person Adolf Hitler was in the War, Albert Patrich, a Little Falls, Minn, farmer who was his Wartime sergeant, replied: "He was just a corporal, what could he say or do? Eight men were under him, that's all. ... I had 40 men under me. I had to give orders to him but he never talked much...
Died. Conway Tearle, 60, oldtime cinemactor (Dancing Mothers, Altars of Desire), stage star (Dinner at Eight). onetime matinee idol who appeared with Ellen Terry and Ethel Barrymore; of heart disease; in Hollywood...