Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...
When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...
...Tulsa, Okla., Rosanner Speights, 66, married Ulysses Grant Sisney, 90. It was her seventh marriage, his fourth. Said the bride: "A preacher once asked me why I got married so much. I told him the Good Lord kept taking...
...other Mikkola trained men took fourth, fifth, and sixth and seventh place as follows: R. Wing, '40 in 19:06, W. P. Tuttle '40 in 19:37, E. V. Clark '40 in 20:06, and Jim Lightbody...
Last time, seven German armies were concentrated on the French border. The Sixth and Seventh, under Prince Rupprecht and General Herringen, respectively, were massed above and below Strasbourg to drive into the valley of the Moselle. The northern five were to execute the famed "swinging door" plan of Count Alfred von Schlieffen...