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Word: sevenths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some thought Sharkey hit oftenest. Others said Dempsey hit hardest and forced the fight. Sharkey seemed the livelier, Dempsey the stronger, when, in the seventh round, something happened about which cigar stores and drawing-rooms, blind pigs and boudoirs, will never need to stop wrangling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

During the second set Señorita de Alvarez suddenly switched from backcourt play to a furious storming of the net which had about it the flavor of a battle cry: "For King and Country!" Soon Miss Wills had lost the third game, the fourth, the sixth, the seventh. Señorita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Wimbledon- Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Among the 78 winners of the Master's degree in the Graduate School of Education were 28 women, this being the seventh year in which women have been eligible to receive Harvard degrees through work in this one department of the University. The School of Education also granted eight Doctors of Education, two being women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 200 Undergraduates Gain Honors in Graduation Awards | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

...Shiny boots were re-shined, polished buttons re-polished, cleaned rifles re-cleaned last week at Fort Meade, Army post. For there was stationed the First Squadron of the Fourth Cavalry, and from that squadron, announced Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the Seventh Corps Army Area, Omaha, was to be chosen the presidential guard which will look after the safety of the President during his summer stay in the Black Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...been defeated in intercollegiate contests this season. Marsh of Williams is number two, while Part-ridge of Dartmouth is in the third position. Following is the ranking of the other men chosen by Coach Dell: Captain Watson of Yale, fifth: Sullivan of Lehigh, sixth: Wolf of Williams, seventh: Appel of Princeton, eight: McGlinn of Yale, ninth: Gordon of Harvard, tenth: Milten of Pennsylvania, eleventh: Rowden of Columbis, thirteenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITBECK AND GORDON ON ALL-EASTERN TENNIS TEAM | 6/14/1927 | See Source »

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