Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week 164 elected delegates, six of them women, filed into the Assembly Chamber...
...dollar in pennies weighs about seven ounces...
...most dangerous of all living creatures."* A coastal gorilla from the swamps of the Belgian Congo, Gargantua was brought to the U. S. as a baby by Captain Arthur Phillips, was bought by Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, animal-training wife of a stomach specialist, grew to apehood in Brooklyn. Now seven years old, 460 pounds when last weighed, with a savage 6-foot arm reach that has mauled many a bystander including Owner John Ringling North, Gargantua began to get ferocious only six months ago. Until then-at which time she got busy and sold him to Ringling Bros, for something...
Four Mennonite bishops sat facing the congregation. One of them took seven Bibles, slipped a paper marker into each, put the Bibles on the pulpit. Seven men, chosen by the congregation, came forward, took the Bibles and returned to their seats. All this was in accordance with Proverbs 16:33, The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The seven men with their scriptures walked back to the pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free...
...Harding had it removed. Paper cigar-holder in mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower's reblossoming were thick around her wharf last week. But the 42-year-old beauty seemed doomed at last as final purchasers were announced, Virginia's Suffolk Scrap Iron & Metal...