Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular...
Soon after dawn in Asmara, Eritrea, Il Duce's Son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano climbed into his flying clothes and stepped out to start the war personally. Seven huge Caproni bombers, black against the pale morning light, were already lined up; their engines idling. Il Duce's two sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal...
...were elated as whites & blacks made front page war (see p. 19). Haggard old China has been due for another beating all summer, and spry Japan, while prepared to lay on the whangee anyhow, is well content that it should make only back-page news. Almost unnoticed last week, seven Japanese river gunboats steamed up the swirling, muddy Yangtze to put huge Hankow, the "Chicago of China," at the mercy of Japanese shot and shell. Simultaneously in China's far south, ten Japanese destroyers stuck their snouts into Swatow...
...Seven new men will be in the Varsity's starting lineup when the Crimson meets the Purple Crusaders tomorrow afternoon. A combination of injuries and promotions has forced Dick Harlow to change nearly two-thirds of the lineup that started against Springfield...
...years the authorities have known that means of exit from Harvard Hall are utterly in adequate for the number of students during the morning classes. It takes anywhere from one to seven minutes to get out of the building after a class, depending on whether the student is on the first floor near the door, or on the top floor farthest away from the door...