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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME did err in one of these seven points: it was not Harvardman Allen but a member of the orchestra who made the gloomy, ungrammatical remark, "Things aren't like they used t be." For the rest, TIME does not take back what it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...crisis was a 40-year-old World War corporal named Adolf Hitler. If he looked back on his last nine years, on the growth of his National Socialist Party, he could see gains more impressive to him than to Germany's rulers. Nine years before he had joined seven men in one of the innumerable visionary parties of desperation that post-War Germany produced. There were then seven and one-half marks in the party treasury. With his colleagues he had worked out a 25-point program, designed a flag and uniform, floated a newspaper, taken the party itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Seven years ago, tall Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, laid his lean hands upon the round head of a plump U. S. priest, made him the first U. S. Roman Catholic bishop ever consecrated in St. Peter's Basilica. The bishop was Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, whom the Pope had appointed Auxiliary to William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. This week Eugenio Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, appointed Bishop Spellman to be Archbishop of the 1,000,000-odd Catholics of the see of New York, vacant since last September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spellman to New York | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Competition this weekend will be for the Morse Cup, the winner of which is recognized as intercollegiate dinghy champion. M.I.T., which won the prize last year, will attempt to defend its title against seven rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachters to Start Regattas | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has. been shown in 48 countries outside the U. S., under names ranging from SnÖvit och de Sju Dvärjarma (Swedish) to Snjeharka (Czech), with "dubbings" in Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, etc. Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snovit & the Seven Polyglots | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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