Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...
...Seven hundred strong they marched through the Capital City of Kabul to the Great Bazaar. There, by the generosity of alert, up-to-date King Amanullah of Afghanistan, they were assisted into pants, buttoned into shirts, tied with cravats and hustled into coats. All these garments, cut after modes observed by King Amanullah on his recent tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23 to June 4), had been made by Afghan needlemen from native approximations to suitings and shirtings. Remained only the titanic project of clipping, shaving...
...Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
...Pigeon Hill in Rockport, Mass., there stands a house. In the house-very much in the house-are 60,000 newspapers. In fact, they are the house (except for a wooden framework). The walls are made out of newsprint, 215 sheets in thickness, waterproofed by varnish. Begun seven years ago, this four-room house was completed last week by Ellis F. Stenman & wife & daughter...
...Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time in the 1917 "patriotic" (unofficial) tournament...