Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main objective of the Congress is the consideration by as large a number of students as possible of the legislation pending in the present session of Congress. Major issues now up in Congress will be discussed in eight Committees based on the committees in the National Congress, including education, social security, relief, civil liberties, Wagner Act, health, agriculture, and foreign policy...
...Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours it took the Germans to seize
...potentates, sitting on leather benches under coats of arms emblazoned on the Chamber's paneled walls, the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, who is very pally with the princes on social occasions, told them to: 1) reform their governments; 2) stay at home to rule instead of spending eight months of the year, as many do, in Cannes, Biarritz, Paris; 3) stop spending revenues on their own pleasures. Britain had been scared into this unprecedented dressing down by the success of Mohandas Gandhi's recent fast to force reforms in the state of Rajkot (TIME, March...
After Pope Pius XII had given a private audience to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Patrick Kennedy and eight of their nine children,* 7-year-old Teddy Kennedy, youngest of them all, declared: "I wasn't frightened. ... He patted my head and told me I was a smart little fellow. He gave me the first rosary beads from the table before he gave my sister [Patricia...
...Refugee children, even though they were not starved in Germany, eat enormously, eight or ten times a day, but gain little weight. One boy begged to be made a cook's helper so he could eat all day. Mrs. Fincke's explanation: food is a form of security. When she asked a little girl why she ate so much, the child replied: "I must eat against...