Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Warndt Forest," forming a "huge pocket into French territory," accounted for over half of the total square mileage: 15 miles wide by eight miles deep...
...Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always jotted down notes and sketched diagrams for hospital records. One day in 1926, while preparing for a ticklish brain operation, he got word that his son had died. He telephoned the news to his wife, returned to his patient, performed the operation successfully...
Pontiac introduces a new Torpedo eight this year to pep up its design, has restyled its Special six series with longer, lower hoods. Prices...
...Drive" (a fluid flywheel combined with an automatic transmission which eliminates the clutch pedal, leaves nothing for the driver's left foot to do but play with the headlight beam at night). Prices: $765 to $1,075 (Hydra-Matic, $57 extra). Low, racy, graceful, Olds has a new eight-cylinder Ninety and its Sixty & Seventy sixes...
Packard styling appears unchanged from last year except for narrower radiators with rounded edges and more chrome grille work. Four lines (two of them brand new) are priced $20 to $100 lower this year at $867 to $6,283. The new 160 & 180 (eight cylinders, 160 h.p.) replace the Super Eight and Twelve. Shop talk: big gains in power-to-weight ratio...