Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later years of his life were devoted to public service. He was for seven years a member of the Board of Selectmen of Brookline, and for 16 years, chairman of the Brookline Playground Commission. When Calvin Coolidge was governor of the state and was looking for a responsible man to reorganize the Civil Service, he selected Mr. Dana from a large number of possible incumbents for the position of chairman of the Commission...
After leaving the bridge continue to the traffic circle. Here turn left and continue to the next two road intersections where a right turn is made in each case, and continue through Bear Mountain Park, over The Seven Lakes Drive, through Tuxedo, Sloatsburg, Ramapo, Suffern, Oakland, Pompton Lakes, Pompton Station, Pompton Plains, Pequannlock, Lincoln Park, Towaco, Boonton, Parrisippany, Littleton, Morris Plains, Morristown, Bernardsville, Far Hills, Bedminster, Somerville, Harlingen, Princeton, Lawrenceville, Trenton, Parkland, Oakford and Trappe into Philadelphia, the destination...
...Portland, Oregon, Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten began rehearsals, for the season to begin the second week in November. Ten concerts were announced for Monday nights, seven for Saturday mornings. The orchestra, its repertoire, have been increased...
Hard by the Manhattan entrance to Brooklyn Bridge and facing the City Hall, stands the Pulitzer Building. Thirty-seven years ago this building was proudly reared by Joseph Pulitzer, superlatively able parent of the present Pulitzers, proprietors of the World. Atop the building glints the famed gold dome, and that remains the same. The deep intestines of the building have been changed. Four years ago executives perceived that equipment in printing, paper and production had exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune...
...DeLesseps collected delegates and money, and formed a company to cut a canal through Panama. Attempting a sea level canal, work proceeded for seven years, could not cope with the Culebra Cut and Chagres River. The management was characterized by "corruption rarely equaled in the history of the world." In 1887 plans were changed; work started on a canal with locks. In 1889 the company went bankrupt...