Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul's rang twelve. Vag counted them: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. He began to hum: "Twelve study transcripts, eleven Curricula Vitae, ten photos more, nine English biographies; eight green forms; seven French projects sheets, six Marshall sheets, five Rhodes references, four Fulbright Projects, three French government applications, two... two study projects...
...page seven of the University of Pennsylvania's freshman handbook, a high-minded quote from Ben Franklin, the founder of the University, appears: "The instruction of youth is one of those employments which to the public are most useful; it ought therefore to be esteemed among the most honorable. Its successful exercise does not, however, always meet with the reward it merits, except in the satisfaction of having contributed to the forming of virtuous and able men for the service of their country...
Over half the seniors last May planned immediate graduate study, while 64 percent expected it eventually. Military service figured imminently in the prospects of one man in five, while one out of seven intended to start working soon after graduation...
...ruling came a little more than seven hours after the Justice Department formally had requested the court to lose no time and uphold the back-to-work order...
...left for substitute wing Harv Mazer to climax a thoroughly unbelievable day by taking a pass from inside Al Butzel and scoring the varsity's fourth goal with exactly one second left to play. For Mazer, it was the second score in just seven minutes of playing time this year...