Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough going for the local elite and even for the President and Fellows, for it dealt almost exclusively...
...seven sins of omission as outlined in the President's message, were its failure...
...live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature a swimming pool in the lawn. Seven miles away from Weirton stands the ivy-covered courthouse of New Cumberland, W. Va., which supplies Weirton with whatever it has in the way of municipal authority outside of uniformed Weirton Company police. Last week, both the Lodge and the courthouse made news of different sorts...
...individualistic to pay great respect to a body whose only claim to fame is that it represents the undergraduates. The individual members of the Council are not necessarily "big men on the campus." The only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall. The Council has therefore deliberately tried in the past years to build up a reputation of giving reasoned judgments on educational matters. If it tried to control undergraduate opinion it would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige. The Dean of the college often asks...
...descend the stairs, we have an excellent view of the stacks of the University Library. There are ten floors of fireproof stacks, seven above and three below ground. In front of you we get a better view of the murals by John Singer Sargent...