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Word: sevens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple glance at the record shows that for the seventh time in seven years, Army is loaded. The entire 1948 Cadet offensive team is back intact, along with half of the defensive team and a dozen capable reserves. Then, too, there are those 20-Third Classmen who showed last Saturday that inexperience is not really such an insurmountable handicap...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Mr. Blaik Fields A Capable Team | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

While the Dunces like to consider themselves an influential phase of Dunster House activity, yet, short of stuffing the ballot box, it is doubtful if our sixteen harmonizers could "choose seven for House Committee" as Tuesdays CRIMSON announced. It is true that the Dunces admit to membership only Dunster House men, but the converse of the axiom is not true. Let the CRIMSON take warning. There have been disgruntled rumblings from the electorate ever the error. Such phrases as "defamation of character," "libel," and "it wasn't the beer, it was the potato chips" have been heard since. John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunces Demur | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the State Insurance Commission is considering a plan to provide cheaper compulsory insurance rates on cars not driven by persons under 25 and not used for business. The rates on drivers over 25 would be reduced seven and a half per cent, while the rates on business vehicles and cars whose drivers are under 25 would be raised 23 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Representative Suggests One Auto Insurance Rate for All Mass. | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Although the 12 men will all race in the meet, only the first seven finishers will count in the team scores. The run is four and a half miles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity and '53 Harriers Seek First Wins, Face Holy Cross, Rhode Island | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Minya Kouka started a series of daring Asian climbs. The highest mountain ever scaled--Nanda Devi--fell originally to an HMC group in an ascent where the routine calamities of mountain climbing expanded into a series of near-disasters. Seven Harvard men (plus a gentleman from the Alpine Club of London) attacked the 25,600-foot "White Goddess" in 1936 and (1) ran into a glacial flood, (2) lost half of their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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