Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven days the three of them traveled 1,000 miles through Texas, getting an idea of its spectacular industrial growth, seeing TIME'S string correspondents on the local newspapers, and talking to all kinds of Texans. In Houston, the Mayor's secretary told a lot about his city and Texas when he was asked how old the handsome City Hall was. He replied: "Oh, it's ten years old, but it's been well kept...
...announcement stunned Republicans in Connecticut and Washington. New Dealing Chester Bowles would almost certainly replace Baldwin with a Democrat, thus increasing Democratic strength in the Senate to 55, a majority of seven; at the same time the Republicans would lose their best vote getter in the state. When-Baldwin showed up at a dinner attended by bigwigs of both parties in Hartford last week, he was loudly booed by Republicans...
Louis McCagg will be at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steven Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Doug Fletcher at two, and Bob Webb in the bow. The coxswain is Warren Clark...
...seven-hit Commuter attack was led by Bill Goldberg with a homer and Bob Hoffman with a triple...
Three new faces will be in the boat today, as the result of some experiments by Bolles in the earlier part of the week: Al Carter at seven, Bill Saltonstall at two, and Charlie Rimmer at bow will all be racing for the first time this year. This combination, by the way, defeated what is now the third varsity by more than two lengths in Tuesday's time-trial...