Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stabilized prices and maintained virtually full employment. For the first time in this century she has both a surplus of exports over imports and a favorable dollar balance. For the first time since 1865 England is selling more to America than she is buying. Taxes have been cut in seven of the last eight budgets, industrial production and personal savings are at new peaks...
...handicap standings, freshman Bruce Johnston took second behind Hamlin with the aid of a seven-minute start. Johnston was making his first attempt at cross-country running, and his showing was the best ever for a newcomer to the sport...
...building used to house administrative offices for the modern and ancient language departments and a few classrooms. Now, with five classrooms, seven seminar rooms, an auditorium, and two audio-visual labs, it also provides 108 office rooms. The new offices will be used by the departments of ancient and modern languages, Classics, and History and Literature. The Romance and German departmental libraries will also be moved to Boylston...
With only the relay to be run the Americans had fought back from a 6-4 deficit to tie the score at seven first places each. Also, in 36 previous Anglo-American contests over a span of 64 years, Oxford and Cambridge had won 17, and the American universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, and West Point) had taken 17, with two meets being tied...
There are some better performances among the seven stars. As Shotover's indescribable daughter Hesione, Diana Wynward is splendid, and Pamela Brown is at least intriguing as her sister Ariadne, Lady Utterword. (They are not the "demon women" Hector describes, but that is Shaw's fault more than theirs.) Ellie Dunn, who begins as a romantic ingenue and becomes one of the quietly scary, hard-as-nails young women only Shaw could create, is played well enough by Diane Cilento...