Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent $7,000,000 building a modern waterfront. In 1932, with great ceremony, the Port of Albany was opened to the world...
...Andy Uram's pass for a last-minute touchdown, 14-10-7. Coached by James Phelan, who played at Notre Dame from 1915 through 1917, using an attack that stresses finesse more than sheer (and traditional) power, Washington earned its right to play in the Rose Bowl by seven victories in which its opponents scored only one touchdown, and a 14-to-14 tie with Stanford...
...Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness had to rent a room, sleep there seven nights...
...company, were lofted to riches by stock splits, stock dividends. Not related so loudly are accounts of the stockholder who got in on the ground floor, soon found himself in the basement, then the subbasement. Such a story could be written around Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. in seven chapters...
Feeling apparently that they serve only as an appendage to the Harvard-Yale rivalry, and rather resenting their position as filling for the legendary Big Three, the "Daily Princetonian" has come forth with a proposal for a so-called Ivy League of seven colleges, presumably to parallel the Big Ten of the Middle West...