Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years, and the NBC news room. Writing for TIME'S Sport department, however, involved a considerable departure from newspaper technique...
Seldom since the war had a diplomatic document been drafted in greater secrecy. For more than six months, in Washington and London, experts of seven nations, like diligent sculptors, had chipped away at it behind closed doors. They were still not ready to unveil their handiwork, the North Atlantic Alliance. But last week, the State Department started a sales campaign to tell the U.S. what its general form would be. To newsmen, the department handed out a 4,000-word brochure, titled "Building the Peace-Collective Security in the North Atlantic Area...
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was well known by musicians throughout the world when she set up the Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress in 1925. She had given the Pension Fund of $200,000 to the Chicago Symphony and built the Sprague Music Building at Yale. For seven years she had been more directly involved with music patronage through her annual festivals of chamber music in the Berkshires and commissions to composers...
Despite Council denials, Fisher reaffirmed his accusations that his trial was a "star chamber session" which impeached him because of "political reasons" and as proof cited the political makeup of the Council: "seven confirmed Democrats, three confirmed Republicans, one leftist, two, in my opinion sincere independents, and three whose politics I have no way of judging...
...Assorted seven-year-olds from the Margaret Fuller House in Cambridge wrote personal "thank you" notes to residents of 20 Walker st. Typical of some of the letters are the following, quoted in the original...