Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such good neighbors as the U. S. and the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza was brought about just as politely as, for example, that of General Jorge Ubico in Guatemala...
...smooth-working Varsity eight returned the trimming which Harvey Love's first-year crew handed it over a week ago with interest by pulling away from the Yardling boat by a full six lengths yesterday afternoon...
...suggestion fell on the deaf ears of already over-burdened department heads, it got a more sympathetic reception from three Californians who agreed to finance a scheme to stimulate extra-curricular reading in American History. Next week the eight History Counsellors and the Faculty committee in charge will meet to evaluate the accomplishments of the program's first year, and to chart a course...
...particular significance in view of the recent and extended criticisms that have been levelled at the teaching in the Economics Department in "The Progressive." The apparent cause for the movement is the complete lack of opportunity for further appointment after an instructor has proceeded for six or eight years in the University. This condition is verified by the fact that during the next ten years there are only tow permanent appointments open to the younger...
...which Mr. Littauer gave to establish the new center, only part has been spent on the building, a four story, granite structure, which houses not only the School of Public Administration but in addition a 200,000 volume library, an auditorium, eight large seminar rooms, a large reading room, lounge, and a statistical laboratory...