Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
Then when James Boy, a seven-year-old, suddenly zoomed from last place to win by half a length, the two Washington women rushed hysterically to the cashier's window...
...teacher-training institution and most potent single influence in U. S. public education for some 30 years has been Columbia University's Teachers College. One of its most original ideas is its seven-year-old New College, an experimental undergraduate institution, which sends its students to get a liberal education in factories, on North Carolina farms, in Europe...
...unnamed beach summer before last an unnamed hypogonadal (undersexed) man lay down in "an abbreviated bathing suit of peculiar cut." He lay there for seven broiling August afternoons and scarcely changed color...
Founded "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States," the Charles and Julia Henry Fund will provide seven one-year fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge to American students next year. The deadline for applications is Thursday, December...