Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bellows, and minor repairs, and is in fine repair today. It is keyed to what used to be called "concert pitch," which, I understand is obsolete today, all instruments being tuned very much lower. My mother was offered $1,000 for it about 1887. It has a five octave, seven key keyboard, which is longer than the usual melodeon, which had, I believe, only five and a half octaves, or possibly only five...
...centuries hence a group of Americans, with the idea of destroying patriotism, began denying the fact that Geo. Washington had ever lived and started calling the twenty-second of February "Xington's Birthday," and in the celebrations used a black cat with seven tails as a symbol of the day what would you think? This compares well with what we so-called Christians are doing...
...since the Christmas vacation. Coach Wachter expects the team to follow up the two victories it made over Northeastern and Worcester with another although he said yesterday that the team's defense work was not up to standard. T. G. Upton '31, who scored nine baskets against Northeastern and seven against Worcester will occupy the center's berth. H. T. Wenner '30 and D. J. O'Connell '29 will have regular places at forward. J. S. Rex '31, whose form has been improving, showed up unusually well in the Worcester game, and is expected to be a high scorer tonight...
...Rhodes Scholars have accomplished much that can be reckoned on paper. Last year, for example, nine Rhodes Scholars received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; seven were awarded a B. Litt; five a B.Sc.; 4 a B. C. L., all of a high class. There were five Firsts among the B. A.'s, and twenty-seven Seconds. A number of University distinctions were won by the Rhodes Scholars of last year. Thirty-two represented Oxford in various sports against Cambridge. In other University and College activities, the Rhodes Scholars have taken and are taking a prominent part. For example...
...well-settled in social Philadelphia to approve of her eccentric plans to go upon the stage. But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses. She has never played to an audience that disliked her; and she has played in the six or seven languages which she speaks. She detests publicity and does not, in her quiet demeanor, display traces of the exhibitionism which inspires all acting. She writes her own monologues...