Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's Congress, expected to draw a million Czech and foreign visitors, marks the 20th anniversary of the birth of the nation. An allegorical pageant, "Construction and Defense," to be performed by 3,000 members eight times during the Congress, will picture the republic's 20 years, the Sokol contributions to its development...
...miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg. The four circular boulevards -whose radii from the Tiergarten intersection will be respectively two, four, six and eight miles-will follow streets largely in existence...
...Jayvees, however face the most difficult encounter of the year. Out-rowed by Navy and Syracuse, stroke Bill Rowe's crew meets a powerful Eli outfit which is almost as good as the Yale Varsity. The Crimson eight has been noticeably ragged in its workouts...
...Writers Guild Inc. (membership 500) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 130). When Screen Playwrights last year signed a contract with seven major studios, the S. W. G. responded by asking NLRB to make it the sole bargaining agent for screen writers. Last week, after considering the evidence for over eight months, NLRB ruled that...
This merging of the processes of teletyping and linotyping is not new. A device known as the Teletypesetter was first given a practical demonstration eight years ago. The Teletypesetter performs its operations by the use of a perforated tape rather than a photocell. Not only can either of these devices be used to receive dispatches from long distances quickly convertible into type; their inventors claim that, used to set up local copy within an office, the machines are far more efficient than manual operation of linotypes. Stories are accumulated either on the Semagraph code copy or on the Teletypesetter tape...