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Word: sevenths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitting him most of all." Thus was honor done to a dead states man and to a living sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, present in the drizzle with wife, son and daughter. Bryan is the sixth hero whom he has immortalized in Washington.* A chance for him to do a seventh hero ended lately when the House killed Senate Joint Resolution 21, permitting the erection of a Borglum statue to Colonel Robert Ingersoll (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Commoner in Bronze | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Roman emperors liked the organ because it was the loudest wind instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Patrick's Triumph | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

After tying the score by a three-run rally in the seventh inning, the Freshman nine managed to squeeze out a 5-4 victory by tallying one run in the tenth inning against an unexpectedly strong Andover team Saturday at Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Defeat Andover Baseball Team 5-4 in Tenth | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...they made only two base hits, the Junior Varsity nine defeated Rindge Tech Saturday by a score of 3-1. Starting in the first inning, the Crimson team converted two errors, a base on balls, and a sacrifice hit into one run. Their other two tallies came in the seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Defeat Andover Baseball Team 5-4 in Tenth | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...chorus of seven drunks will be one of the most remarkable features of this, the forty-seventh annual production of the Harvard dramatists. According to gleanings garnered from the sparse utterances of the all too secretive members of the club, the inebriates bear a symbolic resemblance to the seven heroes of the Argonauts, who as everyone will remember, played rather prominent roles in the tale of Jason and the much-to-be-desired Golden Fieece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.D.C. PRODUCTION TO OPEN TONIGHT AT BRATTLE HALL | 5/2/1934 | See Source »

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