Word: seven-year-old
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...motherly-looking, sixtyish grammar teacher for a chance to recite. Not until late in the lesson did she call on him. Then he answered correctly in a bashful voice, hastily sat down. Vasya is in the fifth grade (equivalent of a U. S. seventh grade) while his seven-year-old sister Svetlana is in the first grade (U. S. second). They go to school, not in a Government limousine, but as their mother used to travel, in Moscow's overcrowded tramcars. In the main floor corridor they daily see an heroic picture of their great father but they...
...Horace E. Dodge's seven-year-old- speedboat Delphine IV, driven by Bill Horn of Newport News, Va.: the 29th running of the Gold Cup Race; with a record heat of 59.21 m. p. h.; at Lake Montauk...
Phar Lap was huge?16 hands, 3 1/2 in.? with a huge leisurely stride. He was a seven-year-old in the U. S., a six-year-old in Australia.* He was the son of Night-raid, out of Entreaty. When Phar Lap was shipped from England to Australia in 1927, he was sold at auction for $800. In 51 starts in the next four years he won 37 races, finished second thrice. Australians considered him the greatest racehorse in the world. Last winter with five attendants and enough New Zealand oats to last three months, Phar Lap crossed...
...from a six-day cruise to Halifax, it was 1 a.m. At a sweepstakes party were Hisashi Fujimura, rich Japanese importer (Asahi Corp.), and his mistress-svelte, blonde, beauteous Mrs. Mary Dale von Reissner, onetime showgirl. She was travelling with him in the guise of governess to his seven-year-old daughter Toshika. During the voyage there had been some stateroom resentment over their affair. At 1 a.m., Importer Fujimura left the party. Except for the testimony of a staff officer and a stewardess who thought that they saw him two hours later, dressed, that was presumably the last time...
...Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission promptly refused to sanction; a subsequent campaign for the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight championships. Promoter Jimmy Johnston remembered he had a seven-year-old contract for a fight between Leonard and Walker, hoped to utilize...