Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech by Mustafa Kemal Pasha to every Turkish city and town and to hundreds of villages. Attempts at a similar broadcast last year failed miserably. The transmitter broke down but a few hours after "The Victorious" one had launched into the preface of his famed and unprecedented Seven-Day Speech (TIME...
...Seven minutes later, in Washington, the thirtieth President of the U. S., who had been reading telegraph returns alone in his study, went to bed. The thirty-first President was elected...
...order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour of U. S. cities, beginning with Boston and Philadelphia...
Further survival of the fittest is listed by Emil Ludwig as one of seven reasons still advanced in favor of war, but all seven he devastates with withering, vigorous logic. Then wistfully he places a little hope in peace conferences, a great deal more in the give-your-child-no-toy-soldiers brand of education...
...have existed for centuries only because they have existed for preceding centuries, there is on foot throughout the campi of the land a movement for the sublimation of the passion for the only tradition in regard to the college bell is that it be punctiliously oscillated every morning at seven o'clock for a period not less than much too long. A fine of thirty dollars would not be out of place for this offense; fifty is more in keeping with the estimates of the ten o'clock scholars resident in the Holden tradition. In accordance with this scheme, class...