Word: seven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the statement that "seven jurors favored setting the will aside. Five opposed." This is not true. The first ballot was nine to three in favor of setting the will aside, and it was never less than this majority...
Last week President Roosevelt spent his quietest seven days since the war began. He traveled from Hyde Park to Warm Springs, with a brief stop-over in Washington, dedicated a community centre, made a joke about the third term, carved a turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner for the patients at the Warm Springs Foundation, looked over his 2,500-acre Georgia farm, held a press conference at the roadside while sitting at the wheel of his car, discussed taxes, and in general provided reporters with nothing to write about...
...familiar attitude of somnolence old James McReynolds heard Justice Roberts announce the Court's decision, seven-to-one for freedom of the press. Scribbling swiftly, newsmen shoved into the pressroom tubes the line: "Justice McReynolds dissents," turned back to stare at the lonely old man nodding in his huge black chair...
...tables periods of 7, 8, 9, 3-4, 11, 21, 25, 34, 39 1-2, 46, and 68 months, in changes of solar radiation. Sterne finds that three of these periods may be attributable to statistical error,--those of 7 months, 8 months, and 34 months. But the remaining seven periods found by Dr. Abbot are not attributable to statistical error according to Sterne. The Harvard mathematician found that the odds against these seven periods being purely statistical error are 30,000 to 1, or higher...
...players around on their backs, danced in the streets, shouted "Anderson for Governor." Reason: the University of Iowa, in its first year under Coach Eddie Anderson (onetime Notre Damer) and with practically the same team that won only one game last year, had just won its sixth game in seven starts this season...