Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stevens at number seven seat has come up from last year's Freshman eight and Middlesex combinations. One of the smoothest blades in the boat, the 20-year-old Sophomore is an efficient pace setter for the starboard side with a keen sense of timing and a lot of power behind his strokes. Doug Erickson, a Senior, at number six, has had long years of rowing experience and is a conscientious, dependable man behind Chace...
...Duke tests, a subject has five symbols to choose from each time he guesses at the symbol of a down-faced card, the Duke experimenters claim that he has a "chance expectation" of five "hits" or correct guesses in a deck of 25. Therefore, when a guesser averages eight, seven or even six hits over a long run, Rhine claims that these scores are high enough to rule out chance. Some of his opponents have claimed that he does not know the mathematics of probability well enough to make such a statement. Perhaps, they hint, if two enormous stacks...
...Cracked down on the great meat packing house of Swift & Co. Charging "unfair and unjustly discriminatory" methods in the sale and distribution of its products, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace issued a cease and desist order. Secretary Wallace's action followed a seven-year look-see into such complaints as that Swift made agreements with numerous concerns to buy meat only from it, that Swift deliberately misled customers about competitors' policies, that Swift manipulated prices in search of a meat monopoly...
During its 80 years of continuous publication, the Atlantic Montlily has had eight editors. The first seven*served for the first 50 years. This month, the eighth, Ellery Sedgwick, gave up his title after 30 years...
Since radio became the most vigorous advertising rival of the daily press, newspaper publishers have been torn between the feeling that printing radio news built up their competitors and the knowledge that their readers were interested in this news. Seven years ago, publishers decided never to print in news stories or program tables the names of commercial program sponsors or of products advertised. This prohibition prevented unimportant free publicity but had no effect on the competitive situation. Publishers gradually realized that what really hurt was printing publicity about radio stars, which helped to popularize them, thus inducing advertisers to spend...