Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight candidates were named last night to fill the three vacancies occurring in June on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, and a second list of eight was nominated to fill the three places left vacant on the Harvard Fund council...
...Eight years ago, at a Philharmonic- Symphony concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Arturo Toscanini introduced to the U. S. an unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was called Bolero. Performed previously in Paris, it was not considered one of its composer's masterpieces, and Maestro Toscanini had programmed it inconspicuously as an hors d'oeuvre to solider stuff. To the surprise of conductor and orchestra. the staid audience stomped, clapped and howled its approval. Within the next three years approximately 500 performances of the work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands...
From profitable Post Office contracts, pneumatic tubes prospered until the War. Then Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, President Wilson's man-Farley for eight years, persuaded his chief over a golf game to veto the $1,000,000 annual appropriation for ''letters shot through pipes"-Republican pipes. Not until 1922 during the Harding administration were Manhattan's tubes reopened...
...less experienced half of the Dartmouth squad traveled to New York's Lake Placid, to face eight other Eastern college teams in the Lake Placid Club's annual invitation tournament. The first day curly-haired Ed Meservey won the cross-country race, followed by two Dartmouth teammates in second and third place. Next day Ed Wells, who had won the slalom the day before, placed first in the downhill. On the final day Meservey placed second in the ski jump, which gave him first place in the combined cross-country & jump, brought Dartmouth's score...
...went up to $41. Last year it stood at $42.50. Last week, on the last day of 1937, the Boston Evening American and the Washington Evening Star announced that they were going to raise their prices from 2? to 3? and eight other U. S. newspapers-from the Atlanta Georgian to the Omaha World-Herald-raised their weekly subscription rates 5?. For by the end of 1938 all newsprint will be costing $50 a ton. That will raise the year's operating costs of U. S. newspapers about...