Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faces", the new review at the Shubert, is, notwithstanding its Broadway run of "seven hilarious months", just another review. A group of new and fairly talented performers, including the Duncan sisters, lift a lifeless script into the regions of just passable entertainment, although the first night audience was liberal enough with its applause...
...looking for a successor to Northwestern's Coach Dick Hanley, looked up the record of the bishop's son at Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College. He discovered that in four years Coach Waldorf had transformed an Oklahoma A. & M. team that had just lost seven games in a row into a conference champion. When Hanley resigned the following year, after an unsuccessful season, Lynn Waldorf replaced...
...Some theorists thought the source was radioactive material in the ground. If this were so, the radiation should have fallen off markedly at short distances above ground. By carrying instruments up in balloons, Hess, Gockel and Kolhörster killed off the terrestrial radioactivity theory. In 1911 Hess made seven flights to 3,000 ft., found no decrease in the rays whatever. Later, nearly six miles up, he found them seven times stronger than on the ground. "A radiation of very high penetrating power," he wrote, "enters our atmosphere from above...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...
...report which charged that almost one out of every seven athletes in the 130 colleges studied was subsidized, Harvard did not escape from criticism. Subsequent to the publication of the report, William J. Bingham '16, Drector or Athletics, declared that the conditions complained of had been corrected