Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seven hundred schoolboy athletes have been entered in the Harvard Interscholastic Track Meet, which will be held in the Stadium on Saturday. This is the largest number get recorded in the 45 years of the meet, and entries are still pouring...
...Harvard University tennis team will meet the Bowdoin College racquet-wielders at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon on the Divinity Courts. The Crimson players have not lost a single one of their seven starts this season and should have no trouble in keeping their slate clean against the invaders from the North...
...fellowships, four will carry the holders to China, seven will enable the men to go to England and one requires study in Spain; in the remaining eight the winners will be allowed to choose their place of study...
Under the terms of the Charles Dexter Scholarships seven students of English Literature, several of them instructors in the Department of English will be enabled to study and travel in England during the summer of 1929. They will visit Oxford and Cambridge Universities while there. The winners of these scholarships are: Warner G. Rice, Ph.D. '27. Instructor in English: Lawrence S. Wright, University of California '24, Instructor in English: Marston S. Balch, A.M. '25: Robert J. Allen, A.M. '28: Mark W. Eccles A.M. '28: Hyman T. Silverstein A.M. '27; Claude M. Newlin...
...Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared over Karachi and landed. Head winds had eaten up its gasoline on the last...