Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oilman Henry Latham Doherty announced the President's annual birthday balls (poliomyelitis benefits) for Jan. 30. William Donner Roosevelt, 4, only one of the President's seven grandchildren not to spend Christmas at the White House, emptied his coin bank in Philadelphia and bought the first five tickets...
...been bleached as had their hostess's. Queen Helen outdid all of them by wearing black lace pajamas over white tights. On another occasion she courted future votes by inviting members of a victorious University of Southern California football team to Magnolia Farm and treating them to a seven-course dinner that began with nine rounds of cocktails and included all the champagne the happy athletes would drink. Soon Queen Helen seemed to have made herself more important in her unofficial position than many an elected officer...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
Digging in the Chou-Kou-Tien limestone, 37 miles southwest of Peiping, has been going on for a decade. On the evidence of a single tooth, Dr. Davidson Black set up Pekin Man as a new genus and species which he called Sinanthropus pekinensis. Seven years ago a Chinese geologist found an immature female skull. Then another childish cranial piece and many more skeletal fragments were turned up, including twelve jaws and about 100 teeth, representing some 24 individuals. After Dr. Black died his work was continued through the Rockefeller-endowed Cenozoic Research Laboratory by Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Peiping...
...problem of placing upperclassmen in the seven Houses is an annual Spring headache for the University. The official figures indicate that 191 undergraduates were refused admission last year. Except for the vague rumor of a new House, little has been done to solve the problem...