Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owns a Lake Placid hotel, is the most famed German bobber, Hans Kilian, who owns one at Garmisch and until last fortnight held the record for the Garmisch run. Like Stevens and a French team, which brought a streamlined sled, Kilian failed miserably last week, wound up in seventh place. Swiss teams took first and second. Three days later the U. S. won its only gold medal of the Games when an Adirondack guide named Ivan Brown, with his neighbor Alan Washbond at the brakes, won the two-man bob-sled championship, after breaking the course record three times...
Radium E is the seventh and last stage of radium disintegration before it turns into polonium. Its atomic weight is 210. Atomic weight of bismuth is 209. Dr. John Jacob Livingood figured that if he hurled billions of particles of atomic weight i at bismuth, some of them might plow into the nucleus and stick, turning the bismuth into Radium E. Actually, the best particles for his purpose were deuterons whose atomic weight is 2. When the deuterons got close to the bismuth nucleus, they broke into protons and neutrons. The protons recoiled. But the neutrons, of atomic weight...
...playing a little Rimsky-Korsakov on my gramaphone, that is so soft and fresh that pleases me mightily, betimes to the office to see the schedule which is as follows: Professor Taylor in Emerson H at 12 continues his intellectual history of Europe by talking on fifth, sixth and seventh century notions of God and the universe. At 2 o'clock this afternoon Professor Tozzer talks on "Sex and Religion", 3rd floor Peabody Museum. A friend, who knows, tells me this will be exceedingly good. On Thursday at 11 Professor Clark speaks on Hinduism, Harvard 3; at 12 Dr. Sarton...
...Seventh place in the cross country race ruined the Crimson's chances for a good showing in the skiing events of the 26th annual Dartmouth carnival. Despite fourths in the downhill, slalom, and jumping, seventh in the meet was the best they could...
Dave Emerson handed in the best showing in the 14-mile cross country grind by taking twenty-seventh place. Shaw broke his skis and was unable to finish, while another member of the team lost his way in the wilds and did not get in until after dark...