Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born Sept. 23, 1838, in Homer, Ohio, seventh child of Reuben and Roxanna Claflin. They were very poor. She had less than three years' schooling. Her father was cruel...
...seated. They knew that Miss Leginska believed herself to be experiencing the only sensible gratification which the world affords to the thoughtful. They did not want anyone to think that, had Miss Leginska merely said to them: "Gentlemen, I wish you would play the Oberon overture, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and the Meistersinger overture," the performance might not have been so very different...
Increase of 2c. per lb. for first, second third zones, of 1c. per lb. for fourth, fifth, sixth zones. No change for seventh and eighth zones...
...Editor of the Times; Prof. Frederic L. Paxson, of the University of Wisconsin; Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, daughter of Adolf S. Ochs, member of the Board of Directors of the Times; Carl Van Doren, literary editor of the Century; the Hon. Charles Warren, lawyer. These six were to choose a seventh to serve as Editor-in-Chief. The Library of Congress will be the scene of labor. Vol. 1 is expected within four years, the rest at three volumes per annum thereafter...
...yearly examinations for three years. The New Plan of one comprehensive group of examinations was preferred by high school graduates 66 per cent of whom gained admission in this way. Of the men who took advantage of the Honor Plan which enables men who stand in the first seventh of their preparatory school classes to enter without examination, over 77 per cent came from public schools...