Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking cold pockets in the ocean. When a berg is traveling South at its serene and prescribed rate of half a knot an hour, it will suddenly change its course and will head...
...Uniform. The chief item of the Girl Scout leaders' agenda was to adopt a new uniform in place of mannish, "tin cannish" khaki. Seven ladies paraded the platform in costumes of green wool with suede belts. The leaders delightedly voted that they should all dress that way. For Girl Scouts themselves, a pleated, roll-collared, one-piece slipover of green cotton twill was adopted, with sport hats to match...
...made to bring out a representative and practical expression of opinion for the wealth of foreign students enrolled in the University. The Harvard International Council "a miniature League of Nations", will come into being tonight with auspicious formalities, when Professor Hudson addresses the gathering of representatives from forty-seven nations and dependencies. Such an event holds prospects fully as thrilling as a more combative meeting of twenty-two men on Soldiers Field...
...inter-dormitory cross-country race yesterday was won by Gore Hall, whose runners took the first four places. R. A. Aldrich '30 lowered the course record of eight minutes set last fall by W. G. Dooley '30. He covered the one and seven tenths miles in seven minutes, 52 seconds
...players were promoted during the season last year to the second varsity squad. This year the class squads of last season have three representatives on the varsity, one of whom had been only second string on his class team. There are on the second varsity seven players from the champion Junior Class team which defeated the winning Yale class team, besides several members of the 1926 Sophomore squad...