Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified ... by ... the several States . . . within seven years...
...There is, however, a much stronger point against the validity of the 18th Amendment. That is the seven-year limitation as to ratification. It is clearly contrary to the Constitution. I have never understood why Root and the other lawyers who argued the case in the Supreme Court did not raise this point. . . . But it is too late now for this objection...
Bouts will be staged in seven classes: 115, 125, 135, 145, 160, 175-pound, and unlimited. The 135-pound matches have attracted the most competitors, with seven boxers entered; in each of the 125-pound, 160-pound, and unlimited classes four men are listed to appear...
...Freshman meet tomorrow will be broader in its scope, including seven events: 100-yard relay race, diving "6", 50-yard free style, 50-yard back stroke, 200-yard free style, 100-yard breast stroke, and 100-yard free style. The final champions will be the winners of the University meet, open to all students, which is scheduled for 3.30 o'clock on April 3. Seven events also will be staged in this last competition and will be the same as those in the Freshman contests save for the diving, in which the men will make eight dives instead...
...view that Liberia is "the white man's grave" is, in Mr. Schwab's opinion, wholly erroneous. He says, "During our seven months constant travelling in Liberia, with almost daily change of water, living largely off the country, under constant exposure to whatever 'dangers' to health there might be, we did not have a single day's illness." However, because of the complete ignorance of the natives of hygiene, and the fact that there are only three physicians in the whole hinterland, the population is likely to decrease rather than to increase. Mr. Schwab thinks that the country may once...