Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Folowing Platt's dismissal from action, the Feslermen gained on the leaders until the score stood 37-36 in Brown's favor with seven minutes of play remaining...
Although played on even terms for the greater part of the game, the Freshman Hockey team was able to defeat a scrappy Belmont Hill School sextet 5-1 yesterday afternoon at the Garden on the strength of three goals in the first seven minutes of play...
...After seven years in a French convent, 18-year-old Victoria arrived in England to make her own way as a governess. But Lady Derby, her aunt, had a better idea: to install her as hostess at the British Embassy at Washington, where her father was now British Ambassador. Skillful wangling won the consent of Queen Victoria, President Garfield's wife, balky U. S. Cabinet members' wives. A sensation from the start, dark, blue-eyed, naïve Victoria, with her heavy French accent and "marvellously curving mouth," did in Washington "exactly what she liked with everybody...
...first marriage proposal came from bachelor President Arthur. Accepting one of the hundreds that followed, she backed out hurriedly when she learned about the facts of married life. Her seven-year conquest ended when British Ambassador Sackville-West was sacked for putting his nose into a U. S. election campaign. A month later he became Lord Sackville, finished out a long, lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married...
Additional awards totaling $3,619 were granted seven graduate students today by the University. The recipients...