Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seventy-seven counties has the State of Oklahoma - Choctaw and Pushmataha, Bryan and Love, Jefferson and Garfield, Custer and Dewey, Cotton and Alfalfa, Beaver and Kingfisher, many another...
...Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...
This afternoon the last and most dramatic football practice of the year will be held on Soldiers Field. Seven Seniors will take part in their last drill as undergraduates...
...general progressive character of the University itself. Harvard could endue each house with certain characteristics and could develop them in a relatively short space of time. That such personalities would benefit not only the freshmen in making their selections but also the house plan in general, is undeniable. Seven colorful and distinctive houses could not help but reflect well on Harvard, and though internecine bickering over details and lack of cooperation among the houses might foil the launching of the plan itself, the prospect still remains undimmed. Some day Harvard must recognize separate and distinct personalities for each...
...return to New South Wales. An escaped convict told him that Sarah had gone to India. He tried to follow her, but was taken first to London, then to China. As he approached his goal, a pressgang from His Majesty's Navy caught him, and it was seven years before he was discharged. Although he still thought of Sarah, he "was too old to undertake any more love pilgrimages" and the desire he "at one time felt to repossess her was now softened into a curiosity to know what had become of her." But he never found...