Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perfunctory was the opening last week of the first regular session of the 71st Congress. The Senate sat only seven minutes. Because of bad weather, elder legislators did not bother to attend. First business on the Senate calendar: the Vare case...
Announced to appear in a four round exhibition bout was gigantic Primo Carnera, seven-foot Italian fisticuffer (TIME...
...After seven years of power, business-like Dictator Kemal is itching to save wasted hours. But he is cautious. Last week he merely tabled before the National Assembly a bill which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan...
...announcement in today's CRIMSON that a school of the theater backed by prominent Harvard alumni is definitely going to be established in Cambridge marks the first step that has been taken to provide for a continuance of Harvard's place in the American theater since the Forty Seven Workshop was discontinued. In former times that course furnished an impetus that has resulted in a great number of the most prominent figures in modern dramatic circles. Recently the possibility of reproducing men of equal caliber has seemed very remote owing to the absence of any training facilities. The new school...
...success of this project depends on the machinery which is evolved to run it, If the instructor is adequate and the course is sufficiently non-professional to permit undergraduates with serious dramatic intentions to participate, then it certainly justifies its existence. One of the chief difficulties with the Forty Seven Workshop was that it absorbed too much of the time of those engaged in working for it so that it finally took on the appearance of a professional school in an undergraduate institution. The new school plans to confine itself chiefly to graduates who would have more time...