Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...
Hong Kong harbor, seventh busiest in the world, is always alive with yachts, junks, ferries, sampans, freighters, liners, men-of-war. Last week it was more than usually jampacked with shipping taking refuge from Shanghai's war 1,000 miles to the north. Suddenly in from the China Sea blasted the worst typhoon in ten years. So furious was the wind that observatory instruments, capable of registering up to 125 m.p.h., broke down...
SAVAGE CIVILIZATION-Tom Harrisson-Knopf ($4). Engrossing, pro-native history of the New Hebrides islanders; its thesis: that savages can be understood by whites. Though he lived with the natives, Author Harrisson confines his own adventures to his narrative's final seventh...
...bounced him off the ropes Louis learned to watch for hard punches ducking, taking them on his arms, or rolling away. Louis soon found the range with left jabs, opened cuts under Farr's eves. After more of this Farr's face was badly marked. In the seventh round Louis landed a halt-dozen punishing blows in as many seconds, but the flurry passed. In the 15th and last round, Louis, having tried everything else, tried a right uppercut to the body. It missed. The final gong rang...
...largest university library system in the world. As far as this country is concerned, speaking of all libraries, we are the third largest, outranked only by the Congressional Library in Washington and the New York Public Library. As far as the world is concerned, we are the seventh largest...