Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in tackle and soccer, Winthrop House galloped away with the touch football title. Averaging more than 50 points per game, the Puritans swept undefeated through an eight game schedule. The champions used a "basketball" offense to pass over and around Adams and Kirkland for 71-19 and 70-18 victories...
...shibboleth of repetition, regularity and smooth surfaces. Instead, Saarinen had produced two irregular structures of crescents and courts built of earthy, monolithic masonry. For the exterior walls, he devised a method of rubblestone construction that would do away with expensive hand labor. Stones varying in size from three to eight inches are placed in wood forms; then cement mortar is pumped in through hoses. Before the cement has completely set, the wall surface is hosed off to expose the stones. The result Saarinen compares to "the walls of old Pennsylvania houses or the stone walls of the Cotswolds in England...
...oysters was harvested secretly in June 1958, and the results were staggering. Though only 30% of the seeded oysters produced pearls, there were thousands of big, beautiful pearls; the best was nine-tenths of an inch in diameter and turned out to be worth $4,900; eight others were appraised between $3,000 and $4,000; another 100 were worth better than $1,000 apiece. For their work and know-how, the Japanese got 50% of the crop; the rest went to the Australians and the American...
...every 100 miles traveled, and conductors and trainmen on passenger trains for every 150 miles-even though the actual traveling time sometimes takes less than two hours. Under the same set of rules, the 20th Century Limited, between New York and Chicago, must have eight engine-crew changes on a 16-hour trip, forcing the New York Central to pay out a total of 19.2 days' pay to 16 men. Some yard crews get a day's pay for moving a train...
...many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions. Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railroad, would like to put railroad employees on an eight-hour day, pay them for overtime as other industries do-and insist on an honest day's work. Says he: "It would be up to the railroads to schedule things so that there wouldn't be much deadheading. The burden would be on the railroads to use their...