Word: sevenths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nicholas Longworth: Beethoven's Seventh Symphony...
...logically and intelligently from the first premises of Catholic theology. The Church of Rome, consciously limiting itself to the sphere of faith and morals, takes no cognizance of the economic and social aspects of the question. It regards the problems of chastity and procreation as it did in the seventh century and as it probably will a thousand years hence. Ageless and universal, it cannot and will not change its doctrine. Birth control, according to its tenets, must be practiced only by abstinence...
...ranking of the states shows the first five places unchanged, with Massachusetts leading by a large margin, New York second, Pennsylvania third, Ohio fourth, and New Jersey fifth. California and Illinois have changed places, the former moving from seventh to sixth, the latter from sixth to seventh. Connecticut remains eighth, Michigan has risen from tenth to ninth, and Maine changed from eleventh to tenth...
...ahead and Joie Ray was far back in the pack. His cheeks froze; he tramped through deep snow with his face wrapped in bandages. After the third day's lap he was third, with Hoey still leading. At the finish on the eighth day he trailed, a slow & sorry seventh. Hoey won the $1,250 first prize...
...friend of Dictator Machado's onetime friend, General Menocal (now of the Opposition), is doughty Sr. Arturo Rente, veteran of the Cuban shooting affrays of 1916. Last week as Sr. Rente sat sipping coffee in a Havana cafe he sneezed, sneezed again, sneezed a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh time, coughed, gasped, spat out a bullet, sighed with relief. The bullet was smooth-polished after spending 15 years lodged in the roof of Sr. Rente's mouth, whence surgeons had dared not remove it. Long ago they predicted it would make Sr. Rente an idiot or a paralytic...