Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once...
...Free bullets," according to legend, are Frelkugeln, subservient to the marksman's will, destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes. The seventh and last bullet, however, is at the "absolute disposal of the Devil himself." Marksmen who employed Frelkugeln were known as Freisch...
This will be the twenty-seventh annual debate for the medal established in 1898 by Pierre de Cubertin, who had been sent to America to study American educational institutions. He established contests in various colleges under the name of Frenchmen of importance, naming the one at Harvard after Pasteur...
Although the University riflemen shot their highest score to date in league competition, they were defeated by Norwich University by the score of 1953 to 1864 in their eighth inter-collegiate match. The University is now tied for seventh place in the league standing with Yale, Princeton bringing up rear with eight consecutive defeats...
...seventh place will be decided today, when the University will shoot against Yale. In the previous encounter the University was victorious...