Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fetid. In Kaufmann & Baer's, the voices are as cultured as it is possible for department store voices to be. The store has 17 display windows on two main thoroughfares, 19 elevators, a complete escalator system running up and down from the street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated by Gimbel Bros., which already owns WGBS...
...championships were decided last week?one by the series of precise passes with which Alabama swept down a field in Birmingham to win its seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that...
Twenty-three colleges and universities from all parts of the East have entered 264 runners for today's run, the seventh annual 1. C.A. A. A. A. meet. The other institutions to be represented this afternoon are Bates, Boston College, Colby, College of the City of New York, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Lafayette, Maine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Penn. State, University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Union, Williams and Yale...
Another Eli runner, A. M. Briggs, took fifth place, and J. N. Watters '26 followed, capturing sixth for the Crimson. Not until six runners had crossed the line was Princeton able to score, when Captain J. K. Vodrey, first man for Princeton, took seventh place...
...securing certain grades in certain subjects, dealing only with the bare bones of languages and mathematics, forces preparatory schools into cramming and gives an opportunity to the professional tutor who can get anyone into a given college and keep him in after he gets there. The University's one-seventh plan is an attempt at lubricating the present entrance system; the recent action of the college board itself in planning intelligence tests for the future has a similar intention behind it, however doubtful the efficiency of intelligence tests may be. Forces are at work to amend matters. It is difficult...