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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentence: reduction in rank from sergeant to private, a fine of eight pounds, seven shillings and seven pence farthing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Weak and Watery | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...lieutenants in the Hotel Veimar in Marienbad. There he outlined the Sudeten demands anew, clarified along lines suggested by Lord Runciman. Meanwhile, to make the clamorous Henlein minority perhaps less intransigent, Premier Hodza soon after announced he would give choice political plums to Sudeten Germans by appointing them to seven large postmasterships, a district public works superintendency, two district governorships, more jobs in the railroad administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Plums for Nazis | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Calypso was a legendary sea nymph who delayed Odysseus for seven years of his wanderings. Few Trinidadians have heard of her, believe that their Calypso is a native word meaning old French & Spanish music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Calypso Boom | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...seven days beginning Saturday, August 27. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...aviation records than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around the top of the world. He soared into the substratosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Another for the Book | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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