Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason for last week's celebration was Big Dick's 25th anniversary as headmaster. Biggest news was his report on the success of the "Richards plan," which he started at Lake Forest eight years ago (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) and which has since been copied in many another school...
...minutes after ten o'clock on the night of May 4, 1886, a storm began to blow up in Chicago. As the first drops of rain fell, a crowd in Haymarket Square, in the packing house district, began to break up. At eight o'clock there had been 3,000 persons on hand, listening to anarchists denounce the brutality of the police and demand the eight-hour day, but by ten there were only a few hundred. The mayor, who had waited around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing...
...broke the careers of most of the men who had anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons...
...will be elected from the Class of 1939 and three from the Class of 1940. These nine chosen will meet on Thursday, May 19, to appoint eight additional men, five Juniors and three Sophomores. The entire new Council will then gather on Wednesday, May 25, to elect officers for the year. Retiring officers are, besides Keppel, Wiley E. Mayne '38, secretary, and Caspar W. Weinberger '38, treasurer...
Dissatisfied with the infield that on Friday made six errors against Pennsylvania, Coach Fred Mitchell reverted to his earlier combination of Ulysses Lupien at first, Dave Shean on second, Art Johns at short, and Dick Grondahl in the hot corner. Led by Johns who figured in eight put-outs, the infield played errorless ball with interspersed displays of brilliancy...