Word: sevening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capped water from the Potomac and Wills Creek swirled at 20 m. p. h. over five square miles of Cumberland, Md. One man died, of heart failure. The Potomac, two miles wide in places and looking from the air like a huge, clay-colored lake, rolled on to flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw...
After 21 hours Senator Borah, who can not sleep well on trains and will not fly, completed a long detour around Pennsylvania's floods, detrained wearily at Youngstown, Ohio. There were seven inches of snow. There were 75 greeters to meet him. There was a room in Youngstown's second-best hotel. There was a dinner of Young Republicans, attended by about half the expected number of guests. There was a police escort. There was a speech in Stambaugh Auditorium...
...than half are day students who leave their starkly handsome Genesee River campus at 4 p. m. like factory hands at the end of a day's shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre air of extracurricular activities, the football team which played seven games last season and lost six of them. On their part, Rochester teachers have complained that Rochester students tend to grind for marks, that a true national university should have in its college a diversified, representative student body...
...misty morning in 1900 on a Cleveland golf course, a stoop-shouldered man of 60, his bald head shining like a knob of burnished marble, smacked drive after drive off a tee. Seven caddies returned the balls, patted down little sand tees, scurried down the course as the man kept poling out drives like an automaton. Suddenly from another part of the fairway came a shrill cry of warning. Without hesitation the man dropped his club, scampered into a clump of nearby bushes. Few minutes later there came another cry. The man returned, resumed his work...
...Seven Varsity netmen have been delegated by Coach Harry Cowles to travel southward next week. Captain Germain G. Glidden '36, Robert L. Bentley, 2d '36, James J. Fuld '37, August C. Helmholtz, 2nd '36, Gordon F. Robertson '36, James J. Thackara '36, and Herbert S. Wallis '36 will make the trip...