Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years, as wages, prices and employment rose, the U.S. had poured forth goods and foodstuffs like a great machine being pushed to its ultimate, agonizing peak of performance. Last week the nation heard the wheels slow down a few revolutions. Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown...
Last year's Committee feared that criticism might take the Smoker off the Yard for all time if the event remained nothing more than a whopping good party, a sort of vulgarized Jubilee. This was one good reason why no Smoker was held for the seven years prior...
Cocaine and morphine are among the many drugs which the Communists could have used, according to the Medical School expert. Since a dose of these drugs can last seven or eight hours, they would be just as effective in wringing an oral confession from the Cardinal in an open court as in forcing a signed confession, Krayer stated...
David Graham, chairman of the Freshman Intramural Athletic Committee, announced yesterday that a second term basketball tournament would begin next Monday. Arrangements for this and other sports were made at a meeting of the seven-man council yesterday...
...leagues have been formed on the basis of team records in the pre-examination round-robin competition. The top seven teams are in the National League, while the eight weaker squads compose the American League. Massachusetts Hall has dropped out of the upper circuit because of a shortage of players. All games will be played either at the Indoor Athletic Building or at Homenway Gymnasium...