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Word: sevens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seven years later, almost unnoticed in the surge of great events, the aging dreamer returned to Nice. He wrote endlessly, tended his bees or simply sat staring out the windows in his study. When heavy rains recently washed out the telephone line that linked his house to the outside world, the poet breathed a sigh of relief. One day last week, when her 86-year-old husband felt suddenly ill, Countess Maeterlinck had to run to neighbors to phone for a doctor. The call was too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Pursuit of Happiness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...sailing teams goes after the Ivy championship today and tomorrow at the Brown University Yacht Club when it meets seven other eastern colleges in a series of races split in half by a beer party tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sails for Ivy Title | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

College messengers will deliver good news to 613 freshmen and 213 upperclassmen today, in the form of letters of acceptance to the seven Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Acceptances Go To 826 Students Today | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...concentrate on. The stroke itself, which is accomplished by a combined pull of the arms, push of the legs, and swing of the body must be achieved with all the power it is possible to muster. At the same time, it must be done as nearly like the other seven men as possible, and above all it must consume exactly the same amount of time...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...with a crew which used a style very similar to Bolles' an ideally matched crew superbly conditioned, and trained to stroke identically. Belles, on the other hand, had a varsity weeks behind the Tigers on practice, with a number five oar who takes absolutely no layback a bow and seven man who both dip their right shoulders before the catch, an da stroke who rows the lowest beat in the east. Yet the Bolles-coached crew won, has gone right on winning since that race, and probably will continue to do so until the season ends. The answer...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

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