Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McNary Bill passed the Senate 53 votes to 23. Only seven Senators from west of the Mississippi voted or paired against it-Borah, Phipps, Shortridge, Warren, Smoot, Walsh, King. Of the Senate's eight Presidential possibilities, the Messrs, Borah, Goff and Walsh were the only ones who stood against what Honest John Farmer is said to want...
...John Simon returned to London from India last week. He is the great Liberal barrister who is Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.). The Seven Wise Commissioners have now completed their first visit to India, a visit which has been punctuated by numerous riots and demonstrations against them. Their mission is to recommend, after much further study, what additional measure of sovereignty shall be extended to Indians. Last week Sir John struck a significant keynote when he said: "The Commission will recommend no sweeping changes in the Indian form of Government. The Indian people...
...Only Seven Errors in 162 Chances...
Stellar defensive work has bolstered the attack. A team fielding average of .957 ranks high above the .940 which was the team's record at the end of the southern trip last spring. Only seven errors have been committed in 162 chances...
James Stephens, Irish romancer, mystic, poet, writes seven new stories and never names a character. So universal are the loves, fears, hates and desires, that the generic term suffices: a man, a woman, he, they. He brings to them much of the intensive insight into human fears and frailty, but less of the happy charm of his Crock of Gold. No happiness at all about "Hunger"-grim story of a woman's fortitude mocked by the inevitability of sheer want. First one child dies of starvation, then another, then the weary husband. And in the end there is nothing...