Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several times I have seen newspaper accounts giving statistics indicating that the murders in Chicago are less per capita than in several other large cities. In fact, it seems that Chicago was sixth or seventh below the leader of the list...
...contest, of which this was the seventh annual repetition, was sponsored by the Standard Farm Papers and the farm press of Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. But whereas the best prizefighter in the U. S. can make a million dollars a year, the best cornhusker in the U. S. gets only $100 over and above wages, plus a reputation around home for being an extra good farm hand...
...name of the group which met last week in Geneva for the seventh time is The League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Once upon a time what they sought was "disarmament," but last week Dutch Chairman Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon opened the session with these words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation...
...round the Cape of Good Hope once swore that he would make it if he had to keep sailing until the Day of Judgment. The Devil overheard him, condemned him to just such a fate unless he could find a woman who would love him faithfully. There after every seventh year the Dutchman was permitted to go ashore to hunt a liberator. But the rest of the time he wearily sailed the seas until all the Norseland came to know of the white-faced wanderer and his phantom ship with the black masts, the blood-red sails...
...14?Seventh annual National Corn-Husking Contest; at Norton, Kans. Corn-husking record...