Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont--"Seventh Heaven" on October...
...League members to make "regional security treaties," such as the proposed Rhine Pact. Count Quinones' words and resolution were innocuously bland. Specifically he proposed that when regional security pacts had been drawn up by the interested parties the League "should examine them, in order to report to the Seventh [next] Assembly on the progress of security." In essence the intention of the Count was to lay a flower on the grave of the Protocol, (TIME, Sept. 21) which was once to have given the League power to dictate "security" to Europe...
...seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. (NUMBERS...
...first four weeks of training were spent at the fort where the men learned the practical application of the theories learned in military science courses, and also had daily practice in equitation and maneuvers limbered and unlimbered. The unit was attached for training purposes to Battery C of the Seventh Field Artillery, a regular unit under the command of Captain Brigham...
...platform. One by one a trap door opened beneath their feet, and they went dangling into eternity. They were the men convicted of the murder of the British sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Six of the men, all youths, went bravely to their doom. The seventh an older man, able lawyer, brains of the conspiracy, struggled and wept. An eighth man, convicted, had his sentence commuted at the last minute because he had confessed promptly after his capture and had facilitated the capture of the others...