Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ports to 174,000 tons of shipping lost (as of Oct. 17).* Winston Churchill announced for his Admiralty, moreover, that 29,000 tons of enemy bottoms had been captured and 104,000 tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols two hours apart was substituted for transoceanic convoys. S. S. Cameronia arrived "going from lamp post to lamp post" as her commander...
...line of surveillance. When the German advance came last week, only French outposts remained. These withdrew slowly, leading the waves of German troops into a zone of red-hot cross-fire from machine guns and artillery. Of some 100,000 Germans involved, the French guessed they killed five to seven thousand...
...Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew is such a skillful diplomat that every time he criticizes the Japanese, they like him better. He has virtually all the qualities which a foreign emissary to Tokyo needs: seven years' residence in the country, tall body, grey hair, dark mustache, spectacular brows, horn-rimmed glasses, sensitivity, firmness, a gentlemanly capacity for hard work and saki (rice wine), good clothes, a beautiful house filled with Oriental antiques, and one deaf ear, which he knows how to turn at the right moment...
...Varsity runners finished as follows: one, H. Wonson (D); two, Jones (N.H.); three, E. L. Burwell '41 (H); four, E. Clark '40 (H); five, P. Tuttle '40 (H); six, Kirk (N.H); seven, D. Simboli '40 (H); eight, Williams (D); nine, Rivers (N.H.); ten, Bull (D); eleven, Underwood (N.H.); twelve, R. Wing '40 (H); thirteen, R. Jay '42 (H); fourteen, Sanborn (N.H.); fifteen, J. McLoughlin...
Pamphlets were passed out before the discussion began, outlining a seven point program to keep the United States out of war. Both speakers first urged all pacifists to action now before it is too late and then they opened the meeting to informal discussion...