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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henrys Seven and Eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentlemen, the Kings! | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...have won two games and a rubber," he jested, referring to the four successive votes of confidence with which his seven months of political tightrope balancing were crowned recently. "I have been a sportsman. They can ask no more of me. I resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: 99th Resignation | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...taken many a worthy artist half a lifetime to make that journey. A show last week at the swank uptown Walker Galleries, attended by all the first-string critics of the city, showed that 27-year-old Joe Jones, onetime St. Louis housepainter, could make it in seven months. His first one-man show in Manhattan was held in Greenwich Village's A. C. A. Gallery last May, promptly won him recognition as an outstanding artistic discovery of 1935 (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Workers & Wheatfields | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...pygmy or Liberian hippopotamus, like its big, common brother, is amiable too unless it is a mother with young, wounded or just an old bull "rogue." Only six or seven feet long, it has always been very rare and for that reason badly wanted by zoos. Unfortunately it lays itself open to shooting by doing a lot of cross-country rambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...which each player is given $1,000,000 in scrip money to get himself elected President of the U. S. Three dice are rolled, the total on each roll entitling the player to stick colored pins in a big map of the U. S. Each State has an arbitrary seven counties, except a few in the East which have only four for lack of space on the map. Count is by electoral vote, and the importance of the State is roughly indicated by the number of dice points required to win one county. Thus while it takes only one point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Monopoly & Politics | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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