Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first permanent white settlement west of the Alleghenies. "We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...which we hope will give to its people...the fulfillment of security, of freedom, of opportunity..." the President told an audience of "pioneers of 1934." He waved a little silk flag and seven girls pulled the veil off a huge stone frieze of pioneer figures which cost the Federal Government...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...conference decided to send petitions, and to organize delegations to wait upon Governor Ely requesting him to pardon the seven prisoners, who have already served one month of a six month sentence. The delegation will contain many professors as well as students...
With new and startling individual acts, the specialties division of the Instrumental Clubs will appear before mystified audiences this year. Twenty-seven performers including a zither player have given the division new life...
Between 1901 and 1933 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded 31 times. Italy was honoured twice,* playwrights seven times.* Each of these categories was upped one day last week when the Swedish Academy singled out Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello to receive $41,318 of the late, dynamite-making Alfred Bernhard Nobel's money and the distinction of being Literary...