Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naming princes is a ticklish task. On account of the Irish it was necessary to include "Patrick" among the seven given names of Edward of Wales. On account of the Slovenes plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was obliged, last week, to select a Slovene appellation as the principal name of her lately born third son (TIME, July...
...American girl who can successfully compete with certain distinguished foreign women in flying." In her thought were Lady Mary Bailey, 39, who has shuttled alone between London and Cape Town and Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, 63, who last fortnight flew from England to India and back in seven and one-half days...
...Buddy" Warner, 20 months old, was placed by his mother in a box atop a seven-foot pole. For him was claimed the infant record. Time: one hour...
...pitcher's box in Baker Field, Philadelphia. It was the eighth inning of the second game of a double-header between Philadelphia and St. Louis. Philadelphia had won the first game. Philadelphia was leading now, 9 to 8. Philadelphia, for whom he had pitched well for seven years, had in 1918 released Pitcher Alexander to Chicago, whence in 1926 he went to St. Louis. But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while his St. Louis clubmates...
Griffith Ogden Ellis, a Mason and clubman, is Senior Vice President of the Bank of Detroit. For seven years he was president of the Detroit Street Railway Commission. Another job, however, is really his most important one. He, head of the Sprague Publishing Co., has since 1908 been editor and publisher of the largest magazine for youths, the American Boy. Last week Mr. Ellis further increased his tasks by purchasing and merging with his American Boy its biggest rival, Youth's Companion...