Word: sevened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...
Five in a Row. Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...
...extra load. He ran with decisiveness completed three of the five passage be attempted for a gain of 23 yards. On the play which set up the Harvard held goal, West took a lateral from Rocks on a cries-cross play and went 17 yards to the Holy Cross seven. This play, which Harvard had worked once before in the first quarter without such success suggest, seemed to typify the Harvard offense--West and Roche--mere than any other...
Harvard opened the scoring a fullback Jerry Blits, running spark of the squad, crossed the goal line on a seven yard plunge. Kierstead made it seven points, but the Dartmouth yearlings came right back with a 70 yard drive to score at the beginning of the second period...
...which will enable the members to earn awards for fewer hours of activities. The new form will allow five points for each voluntary hour of participation, including club sports. Ten points will be given for honorable mention in a sport, 20 for a numeral, and 30 for an "R." Seven hundred fifty points are still required to win a 'Cliffe blazer and 500 for a junior award...