Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...
...Butcher of Kingsbury Run" is a character with whom Cleveland newspapers have curdled their readers' blood since 1934, when the first of 13 dissected torsos was discovered in the city's purlieus. Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven men and six women suggested the work of a fiend acquainted with the meat-chopping profession. As one killing after another came to light periodically, Cleveland's harried sheriff hired a private detective named Lawrence J. ("Pat") Lyons to work on the case...
...beaky, baldish Sir Adrian Boult, music director of British Broadcasting Corp., opened his second week with the Chicago Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded the first complete U. S. performance of a top-notch piece of movie music: a seven-part suite from Arthur Bliss's sound-track for the H. G. Wells fantasy, Things to Come...
...advanced college courses, high-school graduates must take stiff competitive examinations (about 20%, pass). On these picked few, Holy Name's faculty (non-Catholic Superintendent John Wilson, seven lay instructors, one Viatorian brother, one Carmelite priest) lavish care not to be found in many U. S. scientific colleges or U. S. aviation schools. Although they get 250 hours' solo, the students are prepared for careers in aeronautical engineering rather than commercial flying...
...first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...