Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an American citizen born of American parents and having lived here for the past eight years, I must protest and tell you that I was ashamed of your description of the Royal Visit to Canada...
...Hull bowed (no curtsy) to the visitors. Animated talk began. They all boarded the train, rumbled through the night toward Washington. In Pennsylvania, the pilot train was halted with a hotbox, streaked at 85 m.p.h. to try to catch the royal train at Washington. It was eight minutes late and all the ace correspondents who had trailed Their Majesties across Canada missed their first meeting with the Roosevelts...
...that same 18th hole where an 8 brought tragedy to Snead, Wood, leading Nelson by one stroke, hooked his second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight-foot putt while Nelson dropped his for a birdie 4. Wood and Nelson were tied again-with sub-par 68s (Shute shot...
Moreover, it has been pointed out that the "middle group" men in the Department have decreased in the past few years. Whereas four years ago there were four assistant professors and eight faculty instructors, during the past years there have only been two of each...
...Healey showed the effects of a week's layoff, doling out eight safe hits and ten free passes to the visitors. He was constantly in hot water and was actually fortunate to escape with as little damage as he did despite the poor support which his mates gave him afield...