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Word: sevens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While bindery employees received a flat five cents an hour raise, a graded increase of five, six, and seven cents an hour will give top janitors $217. The police salary increase was $50 a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pay Raises Go to Janitors, Police, Holiday to Maids | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Harvard never got started. It was blanked by Bob Goodyear, hardly the equal of Frank Quinn, whom Godin bested last June. Goodyear scattered seven singles; he was not exceptionally fast but he mixed up his pitches well and he had a nice crossfire...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Yale Thwarts Crimson's League Title Bid With 3-0 Victory | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Ospina, with army men replacing some of the departed Liberals, kept his promise of a fair election. Compared to the preelection bloodshed, in which some 200 people were killed, the election went off with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: On the Cliff | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Last week in Chicago the grand jury indicted Tucker and seven associates on 31 counts of mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of the securities laws.* Trading in Tucker stock, which had been floated at $5, was suspended on the Chicago Exchange, where it had been quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Torpedo's Wake | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...vacation by returning to New York and Zoe. On their way to meet his neighbors, the Cullens, for dinner at the Grillparzer, they stopped at Richard's office to open That Man's manuscript-only to find that it contained a stack of blank paper with a seven-word title. Zoe was worried when Richard murmured, "So all my life is blank pages," but they went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fuzzy Allegory | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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