Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States functioning under its present Constitution, a baby was born in Virginia and baptized John Tyler. Fifty-one years later John Tyler was inaugurated tenth President of the United States, Twelve years after that, when he was 63, John Tyler's wife bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter...
...shipped to Mrs. Hoover, on the day before election, a young celebrity named, with the fanciness peculiar to kennels and stables, "Bellhaven Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie of all time"), young Bellhaven Behoover...
...activity is no stranger to Goettingen. There were active times in the 18th century when the university was a centre of young stormy poets, and in the 19th when seven professors were expelled because they were too liberal...
...During the past seven years through which my Government has held office, I have been obliged to answer the Parliamentary question now before me thirty-five times. I shall now answer it once more...
...Kulaks. . . . Soviet farms, village libraries and Soviet bureaus have been burned down by the Fists* in their fierce opposition against all measures undertaken by our Communist Party and our Soviet Government. . . . Murderous attacks have been perpetrated against Communist village school teachers and social workers, women as well as men. . . . Seven murders and four attempted murders took place in public assemblies or in Soviet bureaus. The roll of our Communist dead contains the names of four Chairmen of local Soviets and one Secretary. ... A destructive blow at the Kulaks must be delivered immediately...