Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third group which followed Bronson Cutting to his grave were the liberals of Congress. When he joined them seven years ago, an unassuming young bachelor from New Mexico, he did not seem a promising member of a group which is traditionally composed of the prima donnas of politics. He was neither fire-eater nor spellbinder, but to the liberals he became something more useful. In his quiet way he cemented the bonds between them, often persuaded them to hang together instead of flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought...
...Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
...rugby team took over the Deerfield Academy booters yesterday 11-0 in a hard-fought game. The Academy boys put up a good match, ending the first half with the score 3-0, but during the second half they relaxed enough to allow the Crimson forwards to score seven points...
Although all men who visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...
There were 30 planes at Northampton representing seven colleges including Smith, which failed to come into the point column. Besides the colleges Yale, M.I.T., Brown, and Norwich were represented...