Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys who rank in the top one-seventh of the graduating class of a regularly organized and affiliated high school. This new ruling and this open-handed welcome to the boys of the South and West has resulted in greatly increased representation from these sections, and these new boys are ranking high in their classes. The new arrangement...
Sirs: . . . Although many citizens disagreed with the beliefs of Mr. Kvale,* all respected his sincerity and admired the man himself. He was more loved and better known by the people of the seventh Minnesota district than any previous representative. Benson, his home town, has a population of less than 2,500, yet more than 5,000 persons attended the funeral of Congressman Kvale. At dawn of the day of his funeral, members of the Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best...
...proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture to Byron's Manfred, the Don Quixote of Richard Strauss and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony-these comprised the Teutonic program which the Great Italian chose to deliver. And then, as if to justify his choice, he made of the flaccid Manfred a deeply despairing hero and touched the bemuddled Cervantes knight with the tenderness of a great comedian. Not until the Beethoven, though...
...seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially chosen from Rumania's eight provinces. Presently the school was organized, photographs appeared in Rumania rotogravures of King Mihai studying geography with his jolly schoolmates, fust as suddenly, the school was disbanded. Last week an inquisitive Bucharest editor learned the reason for the rupture...
...seemed that if there was any contest between Tilden's feelings for Hunter and his desire to win, the latter won. The score of the whole match was 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 and Tilden's name was written for the seventh time, like Richard D. Sears's and William A. Larned's, upon the championship...