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Word: sevenths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Queen Mary occupied herself by buying seven handbags and two children's pails with shovels. Six of the bags were tweed covered, to match tweed skirts; the seventh was a beige traveling bag, lined with oil silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wise Wales | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Funeral services for Edward Edwin Euler '24, instructor in the Department of German, who died Wednesday evening, will be held tomorrow morning at his home, 129 N. Seventh Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York, Mr. Euler left the University on account of his health before Christmas and went to the South to recuperate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funeral Services for E. E. Euler '24 | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

...Valentine's morning. Chicago brimmed with sentiment and sunshine. Peaceful was even the George ("Bugs") Moran booze-peddling depot on North Clark Street, masked as a garage of the S. M. C. Cartage Co., where lolled six underworldlings, waiting for their breakfast coffee to cook. A seventh, in overalls, tinkered with a beer vat on a truck. Two of the gang drifted aimlessly into the front office where ink wells stood dusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Washington he finished seventh and last in the world's championship 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, winning not a game. Last week he began the 1929 tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red, White & Green | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...University courts. Iselin, who is seeded first in the tourney, was forced to go to four games before he managed to down his opponent from the Cambridge Squash and Racquets Club by a score of 15-12, 14-15, 15-11, 15-9. Perkins who is seeded seventh in the tourney pressed Iselin during the entire match but did not succeed in coping with his opponents sizzling shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ISELIN DEFEATS PERKINS IN ONLY FIFTH ROUND MATCH | 2/8/1929 | See Source »

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