Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these offences, the seven persons--one girl and six boys--were fined $20 each and sentenced to six months of hard labor in the Middlesex House of Correction. Judge George James consoled the would-be patriots by his kindly, "I'm sorry to impose jail sentences...
Although President Conant's recent plea for clemency won acquittal for two girls being tried for the anti-Hanfstaengl agitation last June, the other seven arrested at the same time and for the same offences were yesterday declared guilty of disturbing the peace and of speaking without permits...
...Seven events will be run off today in the first day of the Fall Handicap Meet. Milton G. Green '36, winner of both high and low hurdles in last year's meet, is expected to star again in today's competition...
...bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning had marched, not up to the altar singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," but straight out of Convention Hall, in haughty dignity. Like some other Episcopalians, he apparently resented...
...time of the accident there were seven trains approaching, leaving or passing Signalman Bloor's junction. He had just passed through a Manchester express, a westbound freight, the doomed local. He held up a cattle train behind the local to let a fish train pass south. Said he: "The fish train was the key to the movements in my mind." Up from the south roared the fast express. Mr. Bloor got the fish train out of the way. "I was quite relieved in my mind...