Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin states were to have done likewise. But they could not agree. Hence the seven Governors in Denver...
...Defense Committee, however, soon took issue with Mr. Lovett's league, flayed its founders. Probable reason: The Defense Committee was organized in 1920, at the time of the original arrests, by personal friends of the accused; the Citizens' Committee was founded much later, among intellectual liberals. After their seven-year fight the friends now professed to be "filled with sincere resentment at every attempt to exploit the Sacco-Vanzetti case for selfish political purposes, for personal vanity, for purposes of providing jobs or for any other ulterior purpose...
...other expeditions were active in Palestine, representing seven nations, but their reports were scant. Sir Flinders Petrie, aged 74, and for decades an outstanding Egyptologist, transferred his attention to southern Palestine?"Egypt over the border," he called it? where he thought he might find the origins of the Badarian culture in Egypt...
...police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly as flowers. Native nolicemen lifted their rifles, pumped bullets toward him, killed seven devotees, then the leper-god himself. His other disciples, astonished, stared, furious at the death of an-immortal...
...Asta, Italy, one Giovanni Noverre made a wager. He then drank a glass of water, another five glasses,* another 14 glasses, another 23 glasses, then very slowly nine more, then seven more taken in gulps and sips; finally he raised the 60th glass poured it drop by drop down his gullet. After this glass, his wager won, Giovanni Noverre fell down and died...