Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five guards took their posts in the death house, two to adjust electrodes, one at the blue lethal door, two to call at the cells. One newsgatherer, W. E. Playfair of the AssociatedPress, was included among the seven official witnesses of man killing...
Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti died in the order that their names had long been coupled, seven minutes apart...
Women. There were only seven women present. One of these, Lucy Gardiner, in honor of her sex, was appointed official timekeeper of the assembly...
Viewpoints. To decide what the united Christian Church is or should be, it was necessary to reconcile varying interpretations of the word "church." On one hand was the Eastern Orthodox view that the Church, established and immutably fixed at seven ecumenical councils during the first eight centuries, is an objectively divine institution. An opposite view, held by Congregationalists, Methodists and other democratic communions, is that the Church originated and consists essentially in living people banded together for worship, upon whom tradition can lay no imperative bonds and from whom church organization draws its significance and changes in form. Between these...
...Ephesus, led by Professor Keil of Vienna, diggers located what they guessed were the labyrinthine catacombs wherein the seven Christians of about 250 A. D., who were later called the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, hid from persecution, were sealed in by their pursuers and miraculously awoke 200 years later. They also found fragments of the earliest city of Ephesus (10th Century B. C.) with traces of Kybele, the locality's particular version of the divine matriarch common to many religions in the Mediterranean Basin before the spread of the sacrificial Son-of-God form of religion...