Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago little Black Mountain College, in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, finished its sixth year and laid plans for its seventh. Orthodox educators were surprised at its persistence. Black Mountain resembles no other college in the U. S. It requires no attendance at classes, grants no degrees, has no president, no fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such...
This June the seventh will go down in history...
...Stahlmen again looked woefully weak at the plate as they muffed countless scoring opportunities and left nine baserunners stranded. Their inability to hit in the pinches was demonstrated time and time again; in the seventh it took a base on balls to force in Bob Fulton for the Crimson to get their first tally...
...seventh-place (American League) Detroit Tigers, with bespectacled Rookie Paul Trout pitching: a baseball game (6-to-1) against the-tip-top New York Yankees: handing the World Champion Yankees their first defeat in 13 games, ending the longest winning streak of the season; at Yankee Stadium, The Bronx. By week's end, the Cincinnati Reds, leaders in the National League pennant race, had also spun a string of twelve victories in a row, were finally defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals...
...back of the leaders, Adams finished third this year with 1200 1/2 points. Winthrop's 1177 5-6 points gave the Puritans fourth place. Heading the second division is Eliot with 1095 points, followed by Leverett with 1033 2-3 points in sixth place. Dudley with 922 points in seventh, and the Funsters with 904 2-3 points in the cellar position...