Word: seventh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parents were on a Grand Tour, went to Groton and Harvard (magna cum laude, '31). After graduation he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $185,000 and joined the family firm. He went into the Navy as an ensign in 1942, served with the Seventh Fleet, was discharged as a lieutenant commander. Married in 1931, he has two daughters, maintains homes in Washington, New York, New Jersey, Maine and France...
Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...
...half a million French troops tied down in Algeria, the Germans are already the strongest European force on the Continent. In two or three years time, the West German Bundeswehr will match if not surpass in might all the other NATO armies in Europe combined, including the powerful U.S. Seventh Army...
Most students who join the Project enter it in the seventh grade. "This is the age," Schreiber feels, "when a kid begins to get a general idea of his vocational plans." Only the top fifty per cent of the students in each school, selected on the basis of I.Q. and reading scores, are admitted to the program. These, organized into separate "Project" classes, then become Schreiber's particular concern...
Sullivan, Walters, and Weigan were sixth, seventh, and eighth men on last year's freshman team. Although they had to pass several initially higher ranked classmates to get the positions they hold on the varsity, their presence in these positions is indicative of the team's only weakness; inexperience. Exactly half the top ten are sophomores, and most of the seniors are playing four or five spots above the positions they held last year...