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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loser's losses, the county taking one-half of the sum recovered. Last week's suit, brought by a Mrs. Libbie Maxwell against "Big Bill" Johnson & four associates, declared that her son-in-law, Herman Van Spankeren Jr., lost $15,000 of hers over a period of seven months in the D & D Club, Horseshoe Club, Harlem Stables and Devlin Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Gamblers and Rattrap | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Exactly 45 days, seven hours, and 31 minutes elapsed before the boat put into Frisco Bay. There at the dock was Weinberger, cheering it in, with scarcely time to repack his trunk and ship it back, since he is returning to the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALIFORNIAN'S TRUNK NONE TOO SWIFT IN PASSAGE HOME | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Under the direction of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, the Summer School had its best enrollment in seven years, with 9,167 students registered. This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of organized summer studies there and the fifth anniversary of the new adult education program introduced by Mather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fiftieth Anniversity of Summer School Sees Record Enrollment, Loud Speaker System in New Lecture Hall | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Last week, by way of routine, the commission quietly filed nine complaints, issued seven cease-&-desist orders, and obtained stipulations from 13 firms which voluntarily agreed to the commission's reform proposals. Last week samples of the commission's multiplied activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Routine Vigilance | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Kentucky-born Leane Zugsmith's Summer Soldier is about Harlan County. She calls it Chew County. Seven slightly screwy liberals join a committee to investigate conditions in Chew. Five of them, riding down in a stuffy train, get a wire from their chairman, Hankemer, who> has gone ahead: Do not get off at Chew get off at Zara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Chew | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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