Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's Economics staff will be considerably decimated by the coming departure of seven annual and one Faculty instructor, who will take up posts at other colleges and universities next fall...
Listening to the two boys arguing, Vag suddenly realizes he's never been on a roller-coaster. Tonight's the night to start! "Seven times is my usual quota," says the Vag nonchalantly. "Anyone join...
...William Lyon Phelps, Evangeline Booth and Major Bowes (see p. 58), without honoring Dorothy Thompson. This week Foreign Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick was introduced at the New York World's Fair as the Woman of 1939, a distinction which might have gone to Dorothy Thompson. Seven million, five hundred and fifty-five thousand readers of 196 newspapers scanned them in vain for the column called On The Record, whose author is Dorothy Thompson. Five and a half million radio listeners who on Monday nights at 9 o'clock hear Dorothy Thompson discuss politics...
...democratic ideal is most nearly realized in Vermont ("where the town meeting is still a living, functioning institution," i. e., where democracy functions as in the past); e) that the New Deal is incipient Fascism (she sees dictators in every closet); f) that government should be decentralized (her first seven years in small towns were happy); g) that "the educated female is, in general, dewomanized" (but not Dorothy Thompson...
...Gordon Sproul, 48, an ambitious executive and politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College...