Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McDonald outfit will play a schedule of eight games, concluding with the Eli encounter at New Haven, while the Varsity faces one of the hardest seasons yet slated for the sport here...
...eight returning lettermen who started in last year's Yale match are: Harold P. Williams, Jr., '39 in goal, Joseph C. Bradley '39 at left fullback, Bernard J. Jacobson '39 at right halfback, George W. Phillips '39 at left halfback, Captain John MacL. Johansen '39 at right outside, Frank R. Harnden '39 at right inside, Arthur W. Page, Jr., '40 at center and Howard P. Mendel '40 at left outside...
...When eight men were burned to death in a cheap West Side Chicago hotel last April 6, firemen and a coroner's jury said it was an unfortunate accident. But around the city room of the Hearst Herald & Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil...
...defending champion had his inning first. Three weeks ago he drove his seven-ton, eight-wheeled Thunderbolt over the measured mile of glistening salt at an average speed of 345 m.p.h., 34 m.p.h. faster than man had ever traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over...
...slump in one week of some 11% in stocks. Last week, the Exchange cautiously declared that this time it would do its best to remain open. This would obviously be easier than in 1914- margins are 40% now against about 10% then and volume of sales has increased some eight times, making foreign holdings and trading less relatively important. Last week the SEC and the Exchange had their heads together on methods of cushioning the inevitable shock that war liquidation would bring. Day after the Sudeten ultimatum to Czechoslovakia, volume rocketed to 2,800,000 shares and prices broke...