Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest, conducted by 375 members of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, (and by the New York World) polled some 1,700,000 votes. The voter was given three choices, prohibition as it is, light wines and beers, or repeal of prohibition. Forty-seven states (all except North Dakota) engaged in the poll. In only two states, Kansas and South Carolina, was there a majority for prohibition. Only six others gave pluralities to prohibition. And the total vote was about five to one against prohibition...
...They [the seven Locarnite powers] take note of the fact that they have reached an agreement and have overcome obstacles which had at one moment arisen between them...
...seven powers who signed the protocol of Locarno regret not to be able at this moment to reach the goal which they had in view; but they are happy to recognize that the work of peace which they realized at Locarno, and which exists in all its value and all its force, remains intact...
Last week the grey silence of northern Alaska was ruptured by an occasional rifle crack. Furtive eyes of the wild hiding in snow-hung tamarack tangles would see a fur-muffled Eskimo dragging his quarry to a camp fire, where seven other humans busied themselves preparing sledges and sleeping bags for another night in the wilderness, and 58 tawny-and-grey husky dogs nuzzled down to rest or sat on their haunches growling for supper...
...Safety. Heretofore teams leading by more than two points and not more than seven points, and finding themselves (near the end of the game) in possession of the ball and near their own goal line, have often intentionally scored a safety (counting two points against them) rather than run the risk of losing the ball and having their opponents score a touchdown. The safety scored, they were permitted to take the ball out to their 30-yard line for unrestricted first down...