Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he discovered that his seventh-place players were spending their spare time playing the stock market, Casey called a clubhouse meeting. Looking furtively over his shoulder, he whispered that he Was going to give them a great tip on the market. "Buy Pennsylvania Railroad stock," he hissed. Then he roared into the snapper: "Because they're going to declare a dividend when you bums start getting shipped out of here...
Former Yardling Captain Peter Reider finished four seconds behind UMass ace Bob Horn, who won in 20:23. And sophomores Dave Norris and Ralph Perry placed seventh and eighth, respectively...
Incredible Errors. The Sox saw things differently. This was a game they had to win, if they wanted to stay in the race. Slowly they pecked away at the lead. They scored one run in the third, another in the fifth, two in the seventh. Casey began to worry about those lost chances. He juggled his line-up like a man possessed. Now Martin was out with a torn fingernail; Berra was gone with an upset stomach, and Charley Silvera was back of the plate. Starting the ninth, the Yanks were only two thin runs in front...
...last July assembled at St. Elizabeths (7,500 patients) included eight Episcopalians (the course is required by the denomination's nearby Virginia Theological Seminary), four Methodists, one Presbyterian and one Seventh-Day Adventist. For twelve weeks they were exposed to a full program: lectures by the hospital staff, diagnostic conferences of doctors, psychodrama sessions, at which patients are encouraged to act out their problems and aggressions (TIME, May 30). Each averaged ten hours a week with the patients themselves, chatting, playing games or discussing spiritual problems...
July take-home pay for a factory worker with three dependents averaged $69.84 a week, up almost 6% from last year; for the seventh month in a row U.S. factories hired more workers than they separated. In August new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 173,300, the lowest level in two years. Though farm income -the economy's soft spot-dipped 4% below last year for the first seven months, receipts for July took the normal seasonal gain over June, rose 10%, to $2.1 billion. "Most farmers," said Under Secretary True D. Morse, "are keeping financially sound...