Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preparations were made-secretly, with Sacco-Vanzetti disturbances in mind-for a seven-day presidential pilgrimage on horseback through Yellowstone National Park...
...After seven years of premeditation, blood was shed beside a so-called cradle of American liberty, Boston. The shedding of blood causes restlessness. The restlessness caused by this particular bloodshed was exceptionally widespread, gloomy and violent because, in seven years, a seed of doubt can grow into a harvest of sincere conviction; and because this particular harvest of conviction had been fertilized by the animus of two irreconcilable philosophies of life, SOCIALISM and CAPITALISM...
...teaching must be done secretly, in cellars and lofts-in forests, even. And always the constant danger of denunciation by spies, meaning imprisonment of both the teacher and the parents!" His pride: "I started the first Zionist Society at the College of the City of New York in 1889, seven years before Dr. Theodore Herzl...
They sent him to the Union College of Law (later part of Northwestern University) in Chicago and he led his class. The Illinois Superior Court engaged him as deputy clerk. He was chief clerk within seven months but soon accepted space and a smaller salary in his uncle's office to practice privately. In boisterous young communities the demand for good lawyers is second only to the demand for doctors and, perhaps, masons and carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest...
...Northwest, including The Flaming Forest, The Country Beyond and A Gentleman of Courage; from blood poisoning, at Curwood Castle, near Owosso, Mich. When 17, he traveled over a thousand miles in a carriage, selling patent medicine; afterwards he studied at the University of Michigan; and then, for seven years worked on the Detroit News-Tribune, as reporter, feature writer, assistant editor and finally editor. He then devoted his time to fiction...