Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the lead with 84 contributions. The class of 1908, which is in third place, is only one contributor below 1907. The class of 1897, which is fourth on the list, has moved two classes ahead of 1899, which is now sixth. The class of 1896 has moved from seventh place to fifth...
...probably the Business School which since its creation has drawn men from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools...
...amateur indoor tennis tournament held in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan, again proved a purely French triumph. Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon met Francis T. Hunter and Dr. George King in the doubles final; conquered, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Borotra then whipped Brugnon in the singles, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Partisan U. S. spectators derived negative satisfaction in reflecting that the entry list had not included Tilden, Johnston...
Three months ago he bought the building at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street, Manhattan, in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative Trust Co. occupied ground floor space. They vacated, leaving to Mr. Loft fine banking fixtures worth $150,000. When salvaging junkmen offered him only $25,000 for all the equipment, he decided that for such an amount he might well play as a neighborhood banker himself. His bank, created last week, has capital of $750,000, surplus of $250,000; is named Emerald National Bank & Trust...
Last week the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played without a leader. On the empty conductor's stand an open score, a slim baton lay idle; before it musicians bent to their instruments, swept through Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, through the inspiring Andante Cantabile of Tschaikowsky with a feeling they had seldom known before. Below them in a flower-banked casket, their director lay dead. He, Walter Henry Rothwell, had died of apoplexy, seated at the wheel of his automobile. Through eight seasons he had guided their destinies with a firm hand...