Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven years in which he has consistently outrun other milers, Glenn Cunningham has run a mile under 4:10 at least eleven times, has once (on Dartmouth's board track, year ago) unofficially beaten the world's record of 4:06.4 by 2 seconds. This consistent excellence makes him, in most sportswriters' opinions, "world's greatest miler." Announced last week was a meeting between Cunningham and Britisher Sydney Wooderson (holder of the world's record) next June 17 in Princeton's Palmer Stadium...
...rostrum for three days of earnest punning at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a national Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers. At the Council's instance, seven Governors and the representatives of 37 States dabbled in Constitutional history, gazed gravely at charts depicting some of the most astonishing phenomena of current life in the U. S. Among facts related, deplored...
...morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward to a much longer sentence...
...than usual, more empty seats. Chief entertainment was a new British cinema, Trouble Is Brewing. The picture over, Lord Stanhope stepped to a platform in front of a curtain on which was painted a likeness of Dopey, Dwarf No. 7 in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. From one angle it even looked as if Dopey were whispering into Lord Stanhope's right ear (see cut). Prompted or not, the First Lord proceeded to explain the empty seats...
Members of the American Civilization groups in all of the other seven houses and in the Union are invited to attend the program...