Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floe on which the camp stood had broken off from the polar ice pack, was drifting on a zigzag southward course which veered somewhat to the west (see map), in currents which had been charted previously but whose speed had been underestimated. Some days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged, the scientists stolidly moved...
...Dance of the Seven Veils in Richard Strauss's Salome has always been the despair of opera impresarios. Problem: to find a soprano hefty enough to sing the music, loose-limbed enough to do the dance, shapely enough to weather the moderate public disrobing...
Belbenoit's third and fourth abortive escapes were financed with the money paid him by Authoress Blair Niles. It was seven years before he made his successful fifth escape. Again he got an Indian dugout, with five fellow-fugitives headed for the U. S. Fourteen days later, lucky to be only half dead, they reached Trinidad. The sympathetic British took them in, gave them a new boat, told them to push on. In Colombia, their boat wrecked, robbed by Indians, they skulked naked along the coast for a week, finally reached a Colombian town, where they were arrested. Belbenoit...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME...
...story told to properly dumbfounded reporters in Panama City, he stayed seven months with the primitive Indians in the Darien back country, then pushed on through Central America. Except for being robbed once, his luck held. By truck and Shank's mare he reached La Libertad. There he stowed away on a freighter bound for Vancouver. Seven days later he staggered out of the hold, walked unmolested down the gangplank at San Pedro. When he asked where the car tracks went, a workman said: "To Los Angeles, you done...