Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese, as they have done time and again in the last eight months, continued to keep the Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until...
...Seversky Super-Clipper,'' at least on paper, would fly farther faster than any other, carry nearly twice the payload P. A. A. asked for. Its specifications: weight about 250,000 Ib.; five propellers driven by eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship...
...code (which practically doubled the eight foot-candle minimum recommended by the same groups in 1932) produced more heat than light. For to pour 15 foot-candles on every pupil's desk would cost U. S. schools untold millions ($1,000,000 a year in New York City alone). Even before the code was issued, the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, which was represented on a committee of 15 groups collaborating in the study, had adopted a resolution in convention withholding approval of the 15 foot-candle minimum until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee...
After lunch they looked at Albuquerque's buildings, rode on Albuquerque policemen's motorcycles, squealed as they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...often-told life story, biographers have enjoyed tracing her flair for the theatrical back to the Lowell, Mass, child who at four snipped off her younger sister Barbara's pretty curls; who at eight hated dolls, romped naked in snowdrifts; who at ten, terribly burned in a Christmas tree blaze, played blind for the exquisite drama of the moment...