Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth successive year, the Boston Latin School of which Mr. Patrick T. Campbell is headmaster, has won the Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The competition is open to all schools in the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college, but a competing school need not send any of its boys to Harvard...
Each school must present the best seven of its graduates as a team, and the teams are ranked according to the weighted average based upon the highest examination grades obtained in the four selected subjects by each of their seven members...
...acute as the ticker problem was the telephone congestion. Most stock market orders pass through the "Hanover" exchange. On Friday, harried operators handled between 85,000 and 100,000 calls an hour. Telephone officials planned to divide the burden between lower Manhattan's seven other exchanges...
...lease dating from 1863, the Pennsy acquired one of the freak obligations of railroad finance. For on May 1, 1863, the Elmira & Williamsport R. R. issued $569,500 coupon bonds, in denominations of $500, not callable before date of maturity. That date was fixed at Oct. 1, 2862, just seven months less than 1,000 years distant. When the bonds mature, the E. & M. or owning roads will have paid interest charges of some...
...child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather distressing to look at"). Calypso, "a large female, beautifully proportioned." endured him longest-seven years-and not until their several children all showed a lurking lack of virility did she decide that it was time their lazy father should return to his long neglected wife...