Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition is organized by states, and by eight districts of six contiguous states. Prospective candidates may apply either from the state in which he lives, or that in which he has received at least two years of college education...
Cambridge police have also issued a poster seeking information. In it he is described as "five feet eight inches tall, weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, ruddy complexion, brown wavy hair, perfect teeth, black eyebrows, long black eyelashes, usually smiling. He has a small irregular scar on lower part of abdomen. He is very good looking and a neat dresser. When last seen he had on a blue flannel coat and gray trousers...
...House-Party Week-end like Princeton. The average crop-haired Harvard youth will probably tell you with great condescension that this is due to Harvard's vast indifference to such carryings-on. Don't believe it. The reason for Harvard's unique social existence is that it lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream of debuts and assemblies, as the "Friday Evenings" at the Hotel Somerset, keeps the average Harvard man busy and gay. Harvard men monopolize...
...deposits in Los Angeles' Guaranty Building and Loan Association in 1930, find it difficult to forget the name of the Guaranty's former secretary and general manager, one Gilbert H. Beesemyer. Seven years ago, they and 24,000 other Guaranty depositors discovered that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some 30 have committed suicide. With the help of Depression, Guaranty's original...
...rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches off to the Silent City of Rocks, 25 sq. mi. of massive granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers...