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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides setting a new record for homers in one inning, the fabulous Giants equalled the all-time mark of seven in a game, three in succession. Final score: Giants 17, Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giant Socks | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...About seven blocks away, at the Tribune Tower, a cop stopped the procession, made it turn about before the effigy could be burned beneath Critic Jewett's windows. Content, the marchers found a city refuse box and ceremoniously stuffed her in. From conventional Critic Jewett there was no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jewett Jape | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Last week, equipped with a khaki flying suit, a pistol, seven rounds of ammunition, two chocolate bars, sandwiches and 55?, he marched blithely into one Edward Walz's drive-yourself aerodrome at Camden, N. J., rented a two-seated, high-wing Luscombe monoplane ($9 for one hour). In its gas tanks were eight gallons, barely enough for a 175-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip to Mars | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Since radio became the No. 1 U. S. political hustings, politics has been no place or a marble mouth. Last week Radio Guide, most alert of the radio fan magazines, looked seven of the favorites in 1940's Presidential race straight in the teeth, volunteered its opinion of the seven as radiorators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Presidential Timbre | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...became one of the greatest press-agents of his time, and his only client was himself. He published seven books of personal adventure, which have sold over a million copies. He was always turning up in odd places, doing odd things (and taking odd notes); newspapers printed thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Adventure | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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