Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general election, promised if he became Prime Minister to negotiate a trade treaty* with the U. S. within 90 days. Only fortnight ago Prime Minister King went to Washington to see Franklin Roosevelt and in the heat of their mutually impetuous goodwill the treaty was incubated. Last week, only seven days after Mr. King had first nested in a White House bed, only ten days after conversations had been opened between the experts of the two Administrations, the treaty, engrossed and ready for signing, lay on the President's desk...
Such a cordial send-off was no more than might ordinarily be expected for a prelate raised to an important bishopric. But many a U. S. Catholic frankly wished that a send-off had not been necessary. In the seven years of his rectorship Monsignor Ryan reorganized and brilliantly rebuilt the only pontifical university in the U. S. Far from viewing a Catholic university as a glorified seminary, he instituted nursing courses, a School of Social Work, expanded the Graduate School to admit 800 students, the University to enroll 3,000 men & women. He upped the University's income...
...Buffalo, sentenced to seven years in Attica Prison for stealing 100 chickens, Max Zulek remarked, "O.K." Thereupon bad-tempered Judge F. Bret Thorn said, "If that's O.K., I'll make it ten years." "O.K.," reiterated Max Zulek...
...Seven Rules...
...pledge signed calls for the following of seven fundamental rules of safe driving. The rules...