Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover performed a herculean labor by cleaning out of the White Stables. Seven mounts were returned to the cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va. Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...upper part of the state. At 13 he peddled school books, developed an amazing gift of gab. Then he took to selling a lard substitute, conducting baking contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state he firmly grounded his political influence with the farmers and their...
...Georgo Pierce Baker, has been unique. Professor Baker offers a two-year course in dramatic composition, the personnel of the class being decided by a competition of original play manuscripts. In connection with the study of the composition and , the actual writing of plays, there has developed the 'Forty-seven Workshop' (which takes it name from the number of the course), a dramatic laboratory in which the students' plays are staged, and their faults practically demonstrated. Plays which are this found worthy of public production may be staged again by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which each year-offers one long...
Already some forty-five aspirants have entered the seven events, and in addition there are four relay teams signed up. All members of the University may compete, with the lists remaining open until the first race...
...somewhat absent from the trials of the annual University tournament which were held last night; but all the contestants went at each other with murder in their eyes, and all in all furnished some exciting three-round bouts which kept the gallery of 300 people in a constant uproar. Seven matches were staged; the winners, together with those who drew byes yesterday, will square off in the finals on Thursday to decide the championships...