Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge picked up one of his new gift shotguns, strode to his new gun butts (TIME, Aug. 6), broke seven of the first nine clay pigeons that were whirred in front...
...courts, whither the battle has been at least temporarily removed, strikers planned appeals to vindicate the right of mass picketing. Five radicals, charged with assaulting policemen, were sentenced to seven months in the House of Correction. Radical leaders have piled sentence on sentence until some are faced with total terms of over two years...
Equatorial Africa. "Seven lions surrounded our camp. One actually entered the front seat of an automobile parked nearby and another almost chewed up the rear tire. A third lion managed to get at a camera, which was soon reduced to a pulp. It was a thrilling night, but all is well." The experience befell three Boy Scouts now photographing wild animals on the high equatorial plateau just east of Lake Victoria, Africa. The boys-Robert Douglas, 16, of Greensboro, N. C., David Martin, 15, of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., are with Mr. and Mrs. Martin...
Belgian Congo. Dim news from dimmer Africa tells of Negro giants seven feet and more tall. To study them Explorer Paul C. Hoefler and Writer Harold Austin, are on their way to Mozambique on the east coast of Africa. Thence they will work westerly across the Lake Nyasa country into the Belgian Congo uplands...
...here is the strangest thing. Do you know what finally cleared up my head? Those seven socks to the chin Dempsey hit me in the seventh round in Chicago. From that time on I never had that tight feeling in the head or that haziness before the eyes...