Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This reminded Michiganders that in November they had for the seventh time elected to the Lieutenant Governorship Oldster Luren Dudley Dickinson, a Republican with a strong rural and prohibitionist following. When they went to look for Lieut. Governor Dickinson, who will be 80 next month, they found him also bedded with influenza, at his farm near Charlotte. So was his wife. He got up long enough to be sworn in as Michigan's 54th Governor, first Lieutenant Governor in the State's history to be promoted by death. His wife had her bed brought downstairs so she could...
...sharing top honors in the football league with the Winthrop Puritans. After that the Deacons piled up an amazing succession of seconds and an occasional first or third. Only in two sports, squash and hockey, did they find the going really tough, with their racquetmen and pucksters ending seventh and eighth respectively...
Adams with 705, and Winthrop with 7011/2 totals round out the first division Houses in the present standings. Eliot's 655 tops Leverett's 644 to lead the second division, and Dudley's 603 lands the Commuters in seventh place ahead of Dunster, which occupies the cellar with 538 points...
...Indian sign in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in the first of a 36-match series. Almost before the latecomers in the choice $7.70 seats had a chance to count their change, Budge was leading 5-1. Perry changed rackets, but the unsmiling Budge boomed off the seventh game, and the next set was on. For the first four games of this, Perry held the redhead even with a great and foxy effort, but Budge had too much for him. That set ended 6-3. The next ended 6-0. Perry made 67 errors, never once broke Budge...
...last week, Parson Frazer had paid $850 for his church. Impatient to take possession, he prodded the agents. Finally they gave him two keys, and wished him well. Eagerly he went to the church, found that the keys did not fit, was shocked to learn that the Seventh Day Adventist congregation within did not know that their church had been sold. Parson Frazer took to his bed with chagrin...