Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic pattern, the right halfback plunges into the center of the line, the fullback and the left half sweep wide to the left, and the T quarterback runs almost straight back for seven or eight yards...
Along with his intelligence report on the Crusaders, McCabe also had a few words to say about Yale. Apparently the Yale line can no longer be known as the "Seven Dwarfs," for the Eli front wall looked good against the Cross, whose line averages 208 pounds--program weights...
...other little girl had ever grown up quite like Shirley Temple. She was a movie actress at four,* a star at six, and then a dimpled, curly-topped national institution. Between seven and ten, she was the No. 1 box-office draw in the U.S.; at eight, she was the most photographed human being on earth. At nine, while other little girls waited for their permanent teeth to come in, she wore costly false teeth to hide the gaps from the camera. When she was ten, a Dies Committee witness denounced her as a Communist dupe...
There have been between seven and eight barbers since 1945. Two who left to go to war in 1941 returned four years later and resumed their posts. When a man comes to work for La Flamme's, he usually stays around a while. Of the present employees, Lombardi and Capolupo have been there 30 and 29 years respectively; the others have worked ten, ten, nine, nine, and three years. La Flamme's, in a way, grows on them...
Another example of feathered intelligence was a pigeon used last year, who was taught to play a seven-note tune on a piano--more than a great many people...