Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been for two weeks a U. S. Senator said to a newspaper friend: "Seven men are running the Senate and I am one of them." That man was Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who last week died of heart disease in his Indianapolis home. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, near the grave of James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley...
Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances...
...other hand, R. R. Ketchum '29, who went the full nine innings on the mound for Harvard, allowed but five widely scattered hits and struck-out seven of the visiting batters. He was in full control of the game at all stages, and would have shut-out Wesleyan if his support had not eased up momentarily in the eight inning...
...almost a fourth of the team's total, and has also stolen as many bases as the rest of his team-mates put together. His total of 23 steals so far this year shatters all previous records, the highest individual total at the close of the 1926 season being seven shared by Captain C. L. Todd '26 and W. B. Jones '28, and in 1925 Isadore Zarakov '27 and T. W. Hammond '25 led the field with four pilfered bases apiece...
...large number of entries the contestants will be expected to play off a match every day and the seven best men in each of these tournaments will represents their classes in the interclass matches...