Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight first Freshman oarsmen whipped brand new oars into the choppy Charles yesterday afternoon in a 9-mile workout to the dam and back. Said stroke Wagner of the shiny ash blades: "They're too whippy to have a hard catch. But they're made by Pocock for $20 apiece so they ought to be all right...
...boisterous state, moody Andrew Whitfield drove to Roosevelt Field, climbed into the cockpit of his small, silver Taylor-Cub monoplane, told attendants he was off to Brentwood, 20-odd miles away. Flyer Whitfield then nosed his plane into a mild easterly wind, disappeared from sight. Next afternoon an eight-State search by plane, police and boat got under way. Most plausible of a welter of rumors-including one, later proved false, that he had been seen boarding a steamer for Europe-was advanced by a Norwalk, Conn, house painter who claimed he had heard a plane over Long Island Sound...
...more concern last week to Popeye's cinema sponsor, Cartoonist Max Fleischer, was the necessity of making hippy, squeaky, short-skirted Betty Boop play second fiddle to a new jitter bug creature named Sally Swing. Eight-year-old relic of the plastic, or boop-boop-a-doop, age of jazz music, Betty had successfully weathered the Afro-manic, or hi-de-ho, period without once being referred to as corny. But to the orgiastic, or zazz-u-zazz, generation Betty's presence "has been like having grandma occupying one end of the sofa all evening. A wide-eyed...
...doctor saw that the man was almost dead from a complete fracture of the left lower leg and from loss of blood through many lacerations. To get to his patient, 5-ft. 11-in., 200-lb. Dr. Wassermann had to walk along a steel girder, eight inches wide, atop the 16-story shaft. On that dizzying perch he had to amputate the leg, disentangle the man from the cables...
...laws of the boss that she soon decides that publishing is as inbred as the Jukes family. As for newspaper work, he calculates that some 2,000 girls in New York hope to land one of the 20-odd jobs now held by women reporters on the eight big dailies. Education and social work look like the best bets to him. Department-store selling he puts at the bottom of the list, because he has seen more usually calm women "knock their nervous systems to hell" in that than in any other job. Giving the little girls credit for being...