Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty places were set for breakfast in the seventh-floor dining room of Washington's big white Federal Trade Commission Building. Just before 8 a.m., the guests arrived...
...SEVENTH OF OCTOBER (295 pp.)-Jules Romains, translated by Gerard Hopkins-Knopf...
Author Romains once explained that the grand strategy of Men of Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years...
...foot two inch frame, is a sixty minute workhorse and an important factor in Yale's record of nine wins in thirteen games since he took over at the right tackle berth. An outstanding performer in last year's East-West tilt, Holingshead in Eli's sixty-seventh captain to lead his cohorts against the Crimson...
...play, with both squads resorting to conservative football, Farrell threw the game's first pass, and Fitz snagged the sagging pigskin on the Eli 15. An off-tackle play saw Farrell cut away from two tacklers to score. Bucky Harrison thumped the wet ball through the uprights for the seventh point...