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Word: seventh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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George R. Kelly '44 of Norwood carried off one of the Democratic nominations for State Representative in the Seventh Norfolk District according to Schedule, leaving him the prospect of swinging a normally Republican electorate with his Irish-veteran-Harvard background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Nominees Win Primaries for State Offices | 6/21/1946 | See Source »

...game, but they did expect to see some fun. The management was all set to field a team of the two "loyalists" (Pitcher Rip Sewell and Infielder Jimmy Brown) and a grab bag of has-beens and sandlotters who might do almost as well as Pittsburgh's seventh-place regulars. The visiting Giants warmed up on the field, while 36 unionized Pirates locked themselves in the dressing room for two hours to argue and take a vote. Outside, newspapermen stood on ladders and a pile of trunks peering in through a high window; Organizer Murphy, also excluded, paced nervously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Murphy's Mistake | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...Sheaffer 1,606,946.43 847,460.14 Others Unknown but smaller As long as two years ago, our management realized (between naps) that we could make a quick fast bulge in sales and profits by marketing a ball pen. You don't have to be the seventh son of a seventh son to sell things in a tailwind market, even a pen which has been described as "the only pen that will make eight copies and no original." If & when Parker brings out a ball pen it won't resemble anything now on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...line. With the dice loaded against them, the Varsity boat brought up the tail end in the nine-way regatta (won by Wisconsin) and suffered the ignominy of trailing both M.I.T. and Princeton, their meat of a week before. In their race, the Jayvees did a little better, finishing seventh in the field, while at Cambridge the stay-at-home 150's walked away from Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, and M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Clio, Muse of History, is just a girl who can't say no. She has succumbed for the seventh time in six years to the same man-Upton Sinclair. But in their latest encounter, Volume VII of his novel-history of the 20th Century, 67-year-old Sinclair's powers seem to be failing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World's End to Fag-End | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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