Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outline at some length the Capital Building Program at Washington and . . . say "Within the so-called Triangle will then be erected seven huge Federal buildings of white marble...
Vice President Curtis ruled that the Mallon vote report could go into the Record. Senator Reed, indignant, appealed from this ruling but could muster only nine Republicans to his support, seven of whom the Mallon report had showed voting for Lenroot...
Thousands of goat-skin-coated, wool-embroidered peasants danced and ate roast oxen to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Greater Rumania. The long festival ended last week. As a crowning touch, seven-year-old King Mihai was gravely elected President of the National Jockey Club...
...were so slender. Tuition had to be $200 a year. $50 more than Harvard students paid, and representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs, who had been graduated from Harvard in 1875, and was destined to become the president of the new women's college...
...president in 1882. Three years later she helped raise the $20,000 necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management of the annex property...