Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal debate will consist of two eight-minute speeches, each followed by ten minutes of cross-questioning, and two five-minute rebuttals and summaries...
Council nominations lists will be drawn up by a committee composed of eight Senior Council members, five Juniors (not Council members), and four Sophomores; the group will be picked by the Council President, with the approval of the Council...
...schools, with 20,000 pupils, were closed. In many a Georgia village and town, worried citizens met to talk of ways & means of educating their children. Some decided to keep the public schools open by charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep schools open four weeks. Among the contributions: from the Villa Rica high-school senior class, $25 that its members had saved for their annual trip to the Georgia seacoast...
...Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia Record reporter, David Greendrug Wittels, recently toured the schools of eight coal counties, returned with a grim tale. With mines shut down and coal operators owing millions in local taxes (Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. alone owes $3,000,000), about one-fourth of the school districts could not pay their teachers. Some 6,000 teachers all told had received no pay for one to ten months. Hundreds were on relief. To support their families, others worked after school hours as undertakers, night watchmen, store clerks, life-insurance salesmen, coal bootleggers...
...tournaments the average winning score was eight below par. It took a nine-below-par 279 to win the Masters Tournament at Augusta, one of the toughest tests of golfing skill on the North American continent...