Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston cigarmaker, Revson moved to New Hampshire with his family, and, after graduating from high school, went to Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to work in a relative's textile business. He picked up savvy about fashions, learned many a lesson in feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels...
...injury-riddled Funsters can overcome a seventh-place Dudley team next Tuesday, their tackle football team will be undefeated for the third consecutive year. Halfback Stan Greenspan and quarterback Dewey Manzer will lead the Dunster attack, while lineman Mike McDonald will bolster the defense...
Building "B" is perhaps the most impressive of those. In the past two years, extensive trenching around a 300-foot by 80-foot Roman gymnasium revealed a row of thirteen Byzantine shops at one end. Here, coins of the sixth and seventh A.D. were found, thus providing new information about ill-documented field in Byzantine history. Hanfmann has discovered on the basis of the numerous coins and rich articles Sardis was very active in Byzantine trade, that indeed, it experienced a hitherto unrecognized economic revival from about...
...further inquiry, however, among the debris of the landslide were found a Hellenistic chamber tomb, a Roman wall-painted chamber, two Lydian town walls, and a room of the seventh century B.C. These three Lydian finds represent three distinctly different phases of Lydian civilization and so will be immensely useful in tracking the urban growth of this area, one of the main objects of the expedition. An interesting sidelight of these discoveries along the Patoclus is that the Roman graves are placed near where the Lydian city had been. The Romans always buried outside the city walls; the sixth century...
...enormous size of the urban aggregation of Lydian Sardis suggests a rapid state of organization in the metropolis. After a decline during Roman occupation, the large city revived, as determined from the Byzantine shops of the fifth century A.D., and remained prosperous until foreign invasions in the seventh century. In these shops, the Sardis exploration has created a new and important area for economic historians...