Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly a year ago Esquire's smart Publisher David Smart and Editor Arnold Gingrich set out on an eight months' job of launching a new magazine. It was to be a semimonthly, called Ken, and was to give the public the "lowdown" on world events as "insiders" see them. Last week, about four months late, some 500,000 copies of Ken were finally being whirled off the presses...
...prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left...
This struck British statesmen as amateurish, fantastic, dangerous. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons he spoke with an air of firmness which fired Associated Press to fire Manhattan's World-Telegram to headline eight columns wide: "BRITAIN WARNS GERMANY-WILL MEET FORCE WITH FORCE." It was the Prime Minister's character and reputation, rather than his words, which gave this impression for Neville Chamberlain actually said: "The hard fact is that nothing could have arrested this action by Germany unless we and others with us had been prepared to use force to prevent...
...With eight lettermen returning, Coach Fred Mitchel finds only two positions which will be difficult to fill, third base and right field. In practice sessions in the cage, Dick Ulen, two-year Jayvee veteran, seems slated for the hot-corner spot, while Jo-Jo Soltz, due to heavy hitting, is leading the pack for the right field post. Considered a strong contender for third base, Fred Heckel will be lost to the team for eight weeks following a wrist injury in the Yale basketball game...
...Twenty-eight typewritten pages, the Committee's document is divided into three parts, touching on the mechanism for advancement at Harvard, the methods of advancement at other colleges and an expression of the student's points of view...