Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the river across Soldiers Field, the Harvard nine dropped its second straight game of the season to Connecticut, Saturday, by a score of 8 to 7 in 10 innings. It was an uphill battle all the way for the losers, who managed to tie the game in the seventh inning only to see the winning marker cross the plate on an error in overtime...
...time assault troops of the U.S. V Corps had struggled up the bluffs of Normandy and spilled out into the hedge-rowed fields beyond, advance elements of the Army's Information and Historical Service were already ashore. Their findings, just published, are the seventh in the Army's projected 25-volume series, American Forces in Action...
...hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
...plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. . . . The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters...
...America's most distinguished newspaper" bought space in other Manhattan dailies last week to do a bit of bragging, in bigger type than its editorial department ever uses: THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CIRCULATION HAS PASSED 1,000,000. The Times is now the seventh biggest Sunday paper in the land.* The Times could not refrain from pointing out, in its best morning-coat fashion, the difference between itself and other members of the Big Boys' club. It had reached its new high, said the Times, "without comics or other extraneous appeals...