Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner. She invited him to a party and Noel accepted. That was in May 1947. Last week, lighter by 35 Ibs. and a good deal sadder & wiser, Private Moncaster reported back to British regimental headquarters in Berlin, to explain his long absence; the "party" had lasted two years and seven months...
Puny on the Plain. Four centuries after the Spanish conquest, perhaps four out of seven million Peruvians still live in the Andes, speak the Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion of cane alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. But the pressure for land has increased, and the ancient farming ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo...
...report made public last week did not go so far as to call the picture a fake, but the jurors had refused to authenticate it, and they took seven pages to give their reasons. The jury complained that "within the time available for the study, exhaustive analytical work was not feasible," and presented its final opinion "with full recognition of its own fallibility." The portrait looked suspiciously inferior to the Van Goghs on exhibition at the Met, the jury agreed. It was "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head...
...Twenty-seven professors have already accepted invitations to become associated with the seven dormitories. With more than half the replies received, only three refusals have been sent...
Cazmay joined the group in 1912 and became its secretary seven years later. The late Frank Knapp of Leavitt and Peirce joined about the same time and until his death this fall was extremely active in the group...