Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
...seven minutes of newsreel exhibited in ordinary program houses are selected from many reels of current events. Nowhere could one be sure of seeing all the newsreels made in any one week. In Manhattan William Fox, in collaboration with Hearst Metrotone, found what to do with the newsreels discarded weekly by their companies. He took over a Broadway theatre (Embassy) and changed its program from a $2 show twice a day to a continuous 25? show. He made the program all newsreels, to run for an hour, a full photographic report of the pictorial parts of the week...
Foote was the winner in actual time, covering the distance in exactly 24 minutes. He was closely followed by Murphy, another of the Freshman stars, Seven seconds later. They placed third and fourth respectively in the handicap rating...
...Seven Oxford and Cambridge men are studying in the various graduate schools of Harvard, it was learned yesterday, under fellowships awarded annually by the Commonwealth Fund...
With nearly eight hundred men in English A1 and with seven hundred in History 1, most of the "professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...