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Word: seven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pallid inmates of one of the cell houses were assembled for a Thanksgiving Day cinema. The silence was broken by a shuffling of feet and hoarse muttering. Seven or eight convicts had slipped from their places and surrounded Assistant Turnkey Ray Singleton. They were dragging him towards a door from the cellhouse into the adjacent hospital. They were telling him to get the master key. Turnkey Singleton was answering that the master key, which would open the main door of the cellhouse, had been taken away from its usual place at the telephone switchboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: California Convicts | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...seven months since the new Mayor, in his official inaugural address, declared his intention, though he has no proper jurisdiction over the schools, to proceed to oust the superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew Walks Out | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...seven concerts will be given by 60 members of the Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, on its Christmas trip which will take it to New York and Canada, it was announced by R. G. Fiske '28, manager of the organization, yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB TO TRAVEL IN VACATION | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

...Seven years ago Augustus D. Juilliard, Manhattan textile manufacturer, died, leaving some $20,000,000 as the largest bequest ever made to music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Juilliard Improvement | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Louis, the Municipal Opera balanced its books, found that its summer season had netted $2,334.51 profit. Recalling the seven previous consecutive seasons in which the books had shown profit, again the St. Louis Municipal Opera laid claim to being the only self-sustaining, civically directed musical enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unique | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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