Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more reassuring was the Government's own ARP (Air Raids Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...
...thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal Art Projects. Few scholars feel that these are fruitful subjects for scholarly investigation. In a publication which contains the results of scholarly research, I recently found, for the period between 1925 and 1930, forty-eight articles on mediaeval art, twenty-two on Renaissance and Baroque Art, and one on Modern Art. Perhaps it is because the critical apparatus of most scholars is so beautifully equipped to deal with Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that it finds itself at a loss when confronted by Dali...
...started when Jack Baldwin, San Jose, California, sophomore, tried to hang on to his local reputation an a Don Juan and five dollars, which an attempt to kiss twenty girls out of twenty-two in a half hour. Eight or the girls demurely denied him his fare. The fourteen maidens who succumbed offered him just consolation for the lost fiver...
...curtain swings up on three spring House sport leagues today as the first games in both baseball circuits and in tennis are played. All of the eight contenders will got into action, and another large turnout in expected for all sports...
After a long lay off action will be resumed in House athletics tomorrow along three fronts as eight entries turn down the home stretch in the Straus Trophy race. Both baseball leagues, hardball and softball, and tennis pull up the curtain on their spring schedules...