Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately transferred to sea duty, he left behind at Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station 17 lighter-than-air officers who putter about the sky in seven small blimps and one metalclad ship. Still inflated but confined to its mast or hangar at Lakehurst is the aging Los Angeles, available for ground training but banned from the air by the skeptical Navy high command. (The Army has given up even observation balloons, turned to autogyros...
...seven days beginning Friday, November 11. All times are EST. All programs subject to change without notice...
...renowned than in Cooper's day, when it produced such illustrious bearer-backers of the world's evils as Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Inventor Michael Pupin, Unionist Samuel Gompers. But 1,800 students in its free art and engineering schools (with day and evening branches), picked from seven times as many applicants, still grub earnestly at their education...
...undefeated California, last year's Rose Bowl winner, which had gained 1,920 yards from scrimmage and rolled up 173 points (to 31 for its opponents) in seven games (three outside the conference) this season. The other was Southern California, making a dramatic comeback (with four straight conference victories and One over Ohio State) after losing its opening game to Alabama...
Dyed-in-the-wool hockey fans, who succeeded in finding a few inches of hockey news in their morning papers the past week, discovered the following innovations for the coming season: 1) there are only seven clubs in the National Hockey League (the Montreal Maroons folded); 2) there are no longer two divisions in the league; 3) the team that wins the most games at season's end will be awarded the National Hockey League championship without more ado, but the "world championship" will be awarded as heretofore to the winner of the post-season Stanley Cup play-offs...