Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty-seven hundred priests now live in hiding in Mexico. . . . The people bring them chickens, eggs and potatoes to eat, so that they exist like the apostles of the first Christian days. . . . They say mass in secret chapels and keep the Holy Eucharist in private houses. Several months ago a law was passed confiscating any private dwelling where religious services were known to be carried on. And yet I have learned in the past week that in one State where not a priest is allowed, 83 priests are working in secret, and there in one day 30,000 people recently...
...reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the remainder is approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates at Columbia. Said he of his father in Manhattan last week: "He neither smokes nor drinks...
...Malcolm shifted to second at 100 m. p. h., to high at 200. A whining blue streak of speed, his seven-ton monster covered the course mile in 13 seconds, tore her six tires to shreds. Sir Malcolm did better in the downwind return mile, brought his average to 276.816 m. p. h., a new record but far short of his goal...
...ward supervisor. Then he is required to make a complete circuit of the room, only breaking his stride to smile an inclusive grin at the ceiling. No answers are required to any stupid questions and most of them fall in this category. A good man can make it in seven seconds...
...Seven events are planned: a medley relay, the 50, 100, and 220-yard free style, the 100-yard breast and back stroke swims, and the dive...