Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Highest Seventh Plan...
...Frank Borzage?who quit school at 13 and worked in a silver mine to get money to go on the stage?it was his second Academy award. His first was in 1928, for Seventh Heaven. It was the second time also for Frances Marion who, one of the most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant...
Returns in the present Seventh Reichstag election compare as follows with those of the Sixth Reichstag which was elected July 31 and dissolved by Presidential decree as it was in process of voting "no confidence" in the von Papen Cabinet (TIME, Sept. 19). Popular vote: Vote Per-Vote Per-Party (last week) cent (last July) cent...
...July 6, 1923 the quiet work of Comrade Stalin as Minister of Nationalities bore fruit when the Constitution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (U. S. S. R.) was promulgated at Moscow. Couched in terms of uniting voluntarily almost one-seventh of the world under one flag, the Constitution omits mention of the Communist Party which in fact masters and rules Russia...
...usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with a desperate right in the 15th. Then he wrapped himself in his Indian blanket while waiting for three judges to vote the decision, naturally and unanimously, to Canzoneri...