Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...
Indeed, when seven members of California's Bohemian Club* were asked to write on a slip of paper the name of the most potent westerner of the present generation, five of the ballots bore the name of Paul Shoup...
...been called "15 years ahead of the world's best." It will accelerate from ten to 60 miles an hour in ten seconds. It will ride comfortably at 100 miles an hour. Its intake manifolds were experimented with for more than a year. Its enclosed body seats seven persons. It has a 37 h.p. 6-cylinder engine. It is the new Rolls- Royce, last week announced by Rolls-Royce Co. (of England...
Studebaker Corp. of America last week announced price cuts ranging from $20 to $250. Increased production volume and concentration of all Studebaker manufacturing at South Bend, Ind., was announced as reason for the cuts. Studebaker also announced a new seven-passenger Commander Eight sedan and a President limousine, adding two new units to its 8-cylinder line...
...team commanded by hard-riding Oldster Howard S. Borden with able young Michael Phipps at No. 1. They rode through to a 10-to-7 victory after trailing by two goals in the third chukker. Then they had to play the Greentrees. After four chukkers they were behind seven goals...