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Word: sevenths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uccle outside Brussels. * Satellite Phoebe (200 mi. diam.) is 8,034,000 mi. from its planet Saturn; Satellites Sixth (100 mi.) & Seventh (40 mi.) are 7,200,000 and Satellites Eighth (40 mi.) and Ninth (20 mi.) are 14,750,000 mi. from their Planet Jupiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two New Objects | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

Characteristic of the little torments which University officials invent to rack the pocketbook of thriftless students is the requirement that House members forego not less than a week's meals, if they wish to escape payment for meals which they have missed. If, on the seventh day of the week during which he has declared his intention of buying no meals from the dining halls, a student from afar and absentmindedly orders White Rock and ice in his dining hall, under present rules he is charged for the seven days' meals which he misses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAY AS YOU EAT | 5/26/1932 | See Source »

Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Harvard nine will be working well into mid-season when it faces Bates here this afternoon, and is going after its seventh victory since its disastrous spring trip. Today's game, scheduled for 4 o'clock, should find the Crimson greatly favored to win, and with an eye on Saturday's opener in the Holy Cross series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE FAVORED TO DEFEAT BATES IN MID-SEASON TILT | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

James Edward Freeman, 65, had in his youth no intention of going into the church. He was a New York boy, educated in public schools. He jerked soda in a Seventh Avenue drugstore, then went into the Long Island Railroad. He switched at 18 to the New York Central as an office-boy. Years later he returned to a reunion of old New York Central employes. Three of the executives* he recognized as oldtime office-boys and members with him of a church literary society. Office-Boy Freeman became an accountant for the railroad, dabbled in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For National Purposes | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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