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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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White, switched by Coach Wes Fesler from guard to forward for this game, lived up to expectations by sinking four baskets for a total of eight points, and Lowman, who is leading the league in scoring, contributed three field goals and a foul for seven points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM SCORES 36-22 WIN OVER TIGER FIVE | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Congress had often altered the number of judges on the Federal bench. In fact it had first established the Supreme Court with six members in 1789, increased it to seven in 1807, to nine in 1837, to ten in 1863, decreased it to eight in 1866, increased it to nine in 1869. Franklin Roosevelt produced a letter from his Attorney General attesting that each Federal judge now has to handle nearly half again as many cases as in 1913, that congestion and delay result. His reasoning was impeccably high-minded as he developed it for the newshawks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Constitutional amendment limiting the terms of Justices to six years. His Congressional followers wanted quicker action. Between 1821 and 1825 bills were introduced to curb the Court's power in Constitutional cases by giving the Senate appellate jurisdiction over it, by requiring a vote of five out of seven Justices, by "packing" it with three new Justices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...removed his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia on the seacoast some months ago (TIME, Nov. 16), and to President Francisco Franco whose Spanish Government, officially recognized by Italy and Germany (TIME, Nov. 30), was established at Burgos on the sixth day of a civil war which this week was seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN-ITALY: Where They Stand | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...With seven bullets in his back, Cattleman Tomas Manrique was found by pass ers-by and bundled off to a hospital. There he explained that after having been falsely arrested for stealing 50 head of cattle, he was set free in a deserted spot. Before Tomas Manrique had taken three steps toward liberty, a rattling volley cracked. He expected to make ley de juga history by recovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 'Ley de Fuga | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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