Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1920 U. S. population's centre moved 22.3 mi. west and 7.6 mi. south. In 1790 this theoretical spot was 23 mi. east of Baltimore, has advanced 589 mi. westward along the 39th parallel in 140 years. Biggest advance-80.6 mi.-occurred in the seventh decade...
...vaudeville. For the last year he has been acting in Japan-an unprecedented feat since Japanese stage tradition required that an actor come from a family of actors, and the father of Sessue Hayakawa was a provincial governor. His repertory in Tokyo included Honorable Mr. Wang, in Japanese costume; Seventh Heaven, in Japanese language, European clothes; and his own translation of The Three Musketeers...
...Moody, who has not lost a set in singles competition since 1927, received the Championship Cup, which she had not tried for last year, for the seventh time, denied renewed rumors that she would turn professional. Next day, Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, paired with Betty Nuthall, won the U.S. Women's Doubles Championship by beating Dorothy Round and Helen Jacobs...
...fight it had been amazing to see how little defense McLarnin had against Petrolle's right, it was amazing last week to see how seldom Petrolle managed to duck McLarnin's left. McLarnin nearly knocked him out in the sixth round, nearly did it again in the seventh and eighth, hammered Petrolle when he caught him in a corner in the ninth. At the end of the tenth round Petrolic, still savage, landed two hard rights on McLarnin's face, but they were too late to do any harm. McLarnin did not wait for the referee...
Since 1919 when she won the women's championship for the first time, Mrs. Dorothy Smith Cummings has been the foremost U. S. lady archer. When she won again last week it was her seventh championship. Small, thin and wiry, she had 70 hits for a world's record score of 426 in the first National Round. Mrs. Cummings became a toxophilite at the age of nine; now in her late 20's, she shoots with placid abandon from an orthodox position with her heels at right angles to a line drawn from the gold. Observers were...