Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between professional hockey and professional baseball is a lot bigger than the difference between the two games. In the U. S., big-league baseball is 62 years old, big-league hockey 13. Whereas baseball has two big leagues of eight teams each, hockey has one big league divided into two divisions-International and American-of four teams each. Whereas baseball's annual championship is a World Series in which the leading team of each league takes part, hockey's championship is not a series between the leading teams but a complicated round robin (for a battered...
...faced and indignant, a member of the Law School yearbook board charged vigorously today that its chairman, Charles W. Steadman 3L, had received $1750 in profits while his eight assistants were working under the delusion that all proceeds would be turned over to Brooks House...
Declaring that the chances for either Communism or Fascism in this country and England are negligible, Kerensky traced the reasons why the attempt of his government to establish democracy on Russian soil came to nothing after only eight months. "The essential cause of the Bolshevik victory in Russia," he said, "was the very difficult war in which we were engaged and the fact that the Revolution began during the war--not before, as in the French Revolution...
...stated that contrary to the general impression, measures for obligatory education were being rushed when the war overtook them. In 1913 an act was passed which within eight years would have completely democratized education for the Russian people. Even before this, the local governments were making progress in education, he said...
...Eight stations of the Colonial network, WAAB in Boston, will carry the swimming meet with Yale on Saturday direct from the Yale Pool, it was announced last night. The meet will mark the first letter competition of the sport under major status...