Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subcommittee last week nipped over sheet after sheet of the 66-page British plan, delegates from eight of the nations chimed "agreed, agreed" on virtually every point. Sole "No" thundered from Soviet Representative S. B. Kagan. "These new proposals," he scorned, "are only a feeble palliative. Counting of volunteers is no guarantee that they will be withdrawn...
Play: The commission found even youth's fun depressing. The reason: youth hunts fun mostly alone or in pairs instead of in groups. About one-half the boys and girls drink. One boy in eight spends most of his free time doing nothing...
...front of the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, stands a 24-ft. figure of Orpheus, demigod of Music, sinewy and poised in bronze, with his great lyre lifted and one hand just sprung from the strings. In a circle of fountains below him eight listeners, wakened from death, turn outward and upward toward the music...
...gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted on a barge. Said Winner Iversen, unflushed by his victory, "I don't think I could...
...surgeon, Dr. St. Jacques, 66, picked up his ideas eight years ago. He had read in the Cornell Veterinarian how farm animals were treated by intravenous injections. Soon Dr. St. Jacques was dosing human beings, and getting a few other bold doctors (mostly in France) to do likewise. Last week he presented the claims for his treatment in an article in International Clinics, titled "Anthraco-therapy...