Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring a body of seventeen Juniors and Seniors was chosen to serve as the Harvard Student Council for the coming year. Nine of the men were elected by vote of their respective classes; eight additional members were appointed, so that this body might unify the undergraduates by representing each House, the out-of-House group, and the commuters...
Floyd Shafter Stahl, baseball coach at Ohio State for the past eight years, will succeed Fred F. Mitchell, who resigned early this summer, as head baseball coach here, it was announced by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. He will come to Cambridge early this fall and will be a year-round coach...
...Eight years ago. Rev. James J. ("Father Jimmy") Tompkins. a plain, grizzled parish priest, persuaded St. Xavier University to branch into the field of adult education. Father Jimmy had studied the famed cooperatives begun in Rochdale, England a century ago, had organized Nova Scotian miners and fishermen into study groups to learn about cooperatives...
...onetime Rhodes scholar whose first big job was assistant to famed Criminal Lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1910, Charles D. Mahaffie was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission eight years ago. Since then he has been ICC's chief dissenter - notably on railroad reorganizations which, he said in 1936, "have not been sufficiently drastic." Last week, with Commissioner Mahaffie alone dissenting, ICC approved a reorganization plan as drastic as any ever devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will...
When, after his shuddering seduction by his boss's wife, he is falsely accused of robbery, his family sends him to a private school in England. During his eight months there, he refuses to say a word-his comment on human trustworthiness. His only companion is a cretin who tries to swallow the silverware, drinks ink, knows only two sentences: "Don't worry" and "Right as rain." The night Ferdinand is leaving he is frenziedly seduced by the headmaster's wife, who then jumps in the harbor...