Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textile war- unionists flogged, one woman murdered, the Marion slaughter. To meet these changed aspects of the case, the State's prosecutors adopted quick new tactics. They dropped all charges against nine defendants, including the three women involved and six natives of North Carolina. Against the seven remaining defendants-four of them Northern Communists-the charge of first-degree murder was dropped and with it the shadow of the electric chair which juries shun. In Elizabethton, across the border in Tennessee, officials of the American Bemberg and Glanzatoff mills, where labor troubles began last spring simultaneous with the Carolina...
...reality five feet six and a half inches tall, and weighs in the neighborhood of 175 pounds. TIME may have confused this "little giant" with Herbert Fleishhacker, six foot four and 220 pounds, quarterback on the Stanford team, or with Paul Jessup, six foot seven, Captain of the University of Washington eleven, who last year played tackle, this year may play center...
...schoolbooks. He and the State textbook commission were soon flooded by 25 schoolbook publishers with sample copies. Partly because he is the only Republican high official in his administration, partly because his opponents were ignorant of publishing practice, Governor Sampson was indicted last month for receiving "gifts." Seven members of the textbook commission and all the sample-sending publishers were also indicted, it being known that the commissioners had sold the sample books they received for sums...
...games played so far this season, against Colby and Boston University, the Granite State eleven has tossed 24 passes, of which 18 were completed. Six of the seven touchdowns run up against the two opposing teams were scored through the air. John Shea seems to be the main spring of the Wildcat passing attack. He is generally conceded to be one of the best passers in New England college ranks and it is hoped that his sharpshooting will give the Crimson secondaries a severe test. When Cagle and the Army come to Cambridge a week later, Harvard's anti-aircraft...
...Seven illustrated lectures in French are to be given at the Fogg Art Museum this fall by Marcel Aubert, professor at the Ecole des Charles, Paris, and director of the French Society of Archaeology. His subject will be "The Great Cathedrals of France", and will include lectures on the cathedrals at Romen, Chartres, Amiens, and elsewhere, including Notre-Dame in Paris...