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Word: seven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events crowding a busy seven days at Geneva, following the first opening of the Council of the League of Nations in German (TIME, March 14), by the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, who spoke the four historic opening words: "Ich offne die sitzung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Die Sitzung | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Fifty-seven men of the Public Service company took 15-minute shifts at the artificial respiration of Albert Frick. Up and down their arms went. The patient's father and mother were waiting outside the hospital room, praying that the 57 men would save the life of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand Breathing | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Seven Mortal Sins are: wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, covetousness and sloth. What is the seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 2 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Orchestra startled conservative ears last week when he gave the mad, barbaric incantation of Prokofiev's "Sept, Us sont sept"* its first and its second performance in Manhattan. For, having played the feverish chant in which the shattering tenor voice of the priest screams in frenzy to the seven horrible demons of Akkadian legend against a background of a surging, fanatical chorus as the third number on his program, he repeated it as the fifth for the better understanding of the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Akkadians | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Seven are the authors of all human woe. They are in the sky and the abyss; they rise in the west, they loom in the east; their immensity fills heaven and earth; they grind men as men grind grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Akkadians | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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