Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port of New York Authority which links New York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making. The negotiators were unofficial representatives; their tentative agreements were often repudiated by their governors or their legislatures; when negotiations were begun again...
...second General Assembly found 14 states with such Commissions, all of them, except Colorado and Nebraska, from east of the Mississippi. In addition, twelve other states which have not yet formally adopted the plan have standing committees on interstate co-operation in one or both houses of their legislatures. Seven other interested states sent delegates to last week's convention...
...British people, said the Premier, simply will not stand for a war with Italy or anyone else at the present time. Britain's foreign policy for seven months has been based on the fond belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Seven months of diplomatic failures had brought Stanley Baldwin to the realization that Benito Mussolini was not bluffing. He sympathized wholeheartedly with young Mr. Eden's idealistic point of view. Every wise Briton was aware that Italian conquest of Ethiopia, now at hand, might easily mean the end of British domination in the Mediterranean and the beginning...
Last week it became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...
...that is played. The orchestramen seemed like cogs in a magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play in the double-bass section. Father Anton is an oldster in the Orchestra. His son Carl is there to follow in his footsteps. Trumpeter Saul Caston is conducting in Evansville, Phoenix and Holdrege, Neb. Caston conducted first at a Dell summer concert in 1931, when...