Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School faculty. Furthermore, it is felt that the new committee takes the case entirely out of the realms of precedent and politics, and that the country as a whole will accept its findings on a case that has been more or less of a public disturbance for the past seven years...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
...hero of Egypt and the first native Egyptian to become Premier of Egypt since the days of Cleopatra. Zaghlul Pasha was compelled to resign as Premier (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) when the British exacted within 24 hours a fine of $2,300,000 gold from the Egyptian Government because seven Egyptian students, later hanged, collectively shot and murdered Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, British predecessor of Spinks Pasha as Sirdar. A year and a half later (TIME, June 7, 1926) the followers of Zaghlul swept to an overwhelming victory in the Egyptian parliamentary election but were prevented by British pressure...
There is admittedly not the slightest reason why a man should not spend seven days and nights on the pinnacle of a thirty-nine foot flag-pole if he so desires. But for even the minimum amount of dignity to attach itself to such a feat, the would-be Stygirite must produce a cogent reason for his conduct. The motive of the Syrian saint who lived atop a pillar was one which has commanded the respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible...
...three periods soon after the opening of the practice Myopia kept its strongest combination intact, giving the Crimson riders a five point handicap. During these three periods the University team scored another goal while the Myopia four made seven tallies to make a total 7 to 6 score...