Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's South African dominion yielded vastly more gold than any other part of the world, 10,877,777 fine ounces (worth $224,560,439). Second was Canada with 2,693,892 fine ounces, third the U. S., fourth the U. S. S. R., fifth Mexico, sixth Australia, seventh Rhodesia, eighth Japan...
...kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was addicted to monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their antics delight naive audiences and bewilder supercilious ones. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, although...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...left hand, quick and dangerous as a tiger's paw, be gan to flick Schmeling's nose. It nicked more frequently in the fourth and fifth, jarring Schmeling's jaw, stabbing his right eye. Schmeling began to come in more savagely in the sixth and seventh which was just what Sharkey, a smart counter-fighter, wanted. He moved away, boxing beautifully, stiffening his left arm against Schmeling's head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several times fell into the strategic blunder of leading with his right. Schmeling likes...
...Every seventh person in the U. S. should be sterilized because he is stupid, crazy or going crazy. California has already unsexed 7,500 of its inhabitants. Twenty-six other States and one Canadian Province allow the same procedure. Let the other 21 states follow suit...