Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This vanguard contingent is all sixth and seventh term men, who will be followed next Monday and Tuesday by third and fourth termers, respectively. Men in their fifth term bring up the rear a week from Friday...
Another lot of graduates will teach eighth grade general science, sixth grade geography, and seventh grade arithmetic come the fall. Low girl on the teaching totem pole reported that she would teach "things" to fourth graders in Pennsylvania...
...turbulent early years its leaders were able to report direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...
Helpful Steelman snatched a glass of water, proposed a toast "to His Majesty, the King of England"; Sir Frederick replied with a toast to the President of the U.S. Then the guests left the dreamlike luncheon in the cool seventh-floor dining room for the humid heat of Washington's streets. Said one: "It was awfully nice, but I haven't the damndest idea what it was all about." Said an Administration leader, veteran of many high-pressure capital lunches: "A luncheon without a motive is rather refreshing...
Only men to hit safely for the Eliot Club were Gilman, who doubled in the first but was picked off by pitcher Harrison, and Farmer in the seventh, who also reached second by means of a steal but died there as Harrison got a strike out, tossed a grounder to third for a force, and compelled a third batter to pop up to end the game...