Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps, the Americans have also launched a program to educate adults-a 19-lesson course, with films, lectures and discussion groups. It meets for two hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
...Inland Steel Co.'s President Wilfred Sykes had guided Inland to the biggest sales ($395 million in 1948) and biggest profits ($38.6 million) in its history, had made it the seventh biggest U.S. producer. But Sykes had also established a rule for automatic retirement at age 65. This week, 65-year-old Wilfred Sykes stepped upstairs to become chairman of the executive committee. He turned over the presidency to his assistant, Clarence Belden Randall, 58. A Harvard-trained lawyer who this week also became head of the Harvard Alumni Association, Randall was named a vice president...
Thompson scored the sixth Crimson run in the home half of the sixth with a triple, his second hit, and a wild pitch, but the Purple had already piled up eight tallies and added single runs in the seventh and eighth...
...ties were recorded in the tight match, but the Crimson managed to squeeze through with three victories in the fourth, sixth, and seventh positions. None of Harvard's golfers had ever played the course before...
Dick O'Keeffe turned in a phenomenally low 69, to lead the scoring. Playing in the seventh slot for the Crimson, he managed to beat par by two strokes. Hugh Nawn of Harvard followed close behind with a 72, and two players on each team posted...