Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening its twenty-seventh annual drive for the sale of Christmas seals, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association mailed 6,185 sheets of stamps to Harvard students last Friday. The proceeds of the sale will be used for continuing the campaign against tuberculosis, the prevention of heart disease, and for furnishing a preventorium to care for children...
...history of the world, was there ever such a record of achievement and speed? Twenty-five percent recovery from a small depression may not be much but 25% recovery by a deliberate plan in a few months from the wreck of an entire economic system is a seventh wonder of the world. And for this relief much thanks from 95% of the American people but-from the leaders, guides and scouts of the old road to ruin -what? Strident clamoring-a few little men with loud voices, frantically waving many puny red flags of false and futile warning...
...Seventh, adjustment of private debts through the passage of the McKeownLa Guardia bill, providing that when '66 2-3 per cent of the creditors of a corporation agree upon a plan of settlement or reorganization, this shall be binding upon the minority. The proposal passed the House, but failed in the Senate last February and was not pressed in the extra session...
...Seventh-you state that "Mr. Carter's generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office." It is the first time the writer has ever been aware that either a man's generosity or his loyalty to his Party should be subject to criticism or slander. As for my ambition to hold office-this in itself is ridiculous. I have never held public office and have repeatedly stated in the publication with which I am associated that I never expect to hold one. Therefore...
...drive and a plunge that no Harvard back possesses. Brown's forward passing has been better handled than Harvard's, except in one game. Yet if Harvard's line wakes up offensively, I look for a close game. I will be surprised if Brown does not win its seventh post-War game from Harvard in twelve starts...