Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circus, certainly not soothing to students who are putting on their coats and preparing to leave the scene of slaughter. And amidst all this excitement it is perfectly possible for the students who are willing to take advantage of the situation to continue writing for five, and sometimes even seven or ten, minutes after the examination has come to its official close...
Gosh, what a racket over in Weld. There's a girl in the room .... but the shades are down. Ha! the first chapter doesn't start till page seven. That leaves only 282 1-2 pages to read. I ought to be done...
...also quite proud of our bathing beach. We have more than seven miles of the best beach in the country-a clean, gently sloping beach superior to any other on the entire coastal line...
...soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War. The Grand Army of the Republic, under its commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, followed up the idea, and chose May 30, 1868 as the day for respecting Union graves. The holiday was quickly made annual by all save seven of the southern states, while Virginia recognized the occasion each year, but called it "Confederate Memorial Day". Thus Memorial Day is virtually a national event, and after almost seventy years of steady observance, has assumed a position of real traditional rank...
...commission house profits the partners, a year later, were able to invest in one of the oil refineries then mushrooming in Cleveland. Sensing apparently from the very beginning the colossal future of oil, Rockefeller soon turned from food to fuel. Within seven years he controlled four-fifths of all the refineries in Cleveland, then the oil capital of the U. S. He was just...