Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assemble what became not only the biggest ranch in the U. S. but one of the world's most impressive landholdings. Today, dominated by Klebergs, the King Ranch of 1,250,000 acres is twice as big as Rhode Island, nearly as big as Delaware, stretches into seven counties...
...Generalissimo Franco's avid blue-penciling censors for long. Notable exception is New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, who has minimized Italian help to the Rightists, mentioned Moorish troops infrequently, reported denials of large-scale executions, called the Rightists "Nationalists" and described the Rightist reoccupation of Teruel seven weeks before that city was retaken. Even ardent Rightist Carney last week apparently felt he had to go to Gibraltar before he cabled that mediation was "debated on all sides from every angle" in Rightist Spain...
...Hollywood Producer Walt Disney announced that he had bought the screen rights to Peter Pan; learned that Singers Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell, who sang the roles respectively of Snow White and Prince Charming, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were suing him for $300,000, as their share of the profits from the sale of phonograph records...
...Seven hours later, in the night sky over Alabama, Joe Connolly experienced some-thing an earlier age would have called a miraculous sign of approval for his good works and words...
...Seven weeks ago the Pirates were rated one of the strongest teams in the League. Owner Rooney, who won some $200,000 on horses last year, had rounded up the most expensive collection of stars in major-league football. No. 1 star: Rhodes Scholar Byron (''Whizzer") White, at $15,000 for eleven games...