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seventy-three

num. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-two and preceding seventy-four.

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seventy-three

adj. being three more than seventy [syn: 73, lxxiii]

Usage examples of "seventy-three".

Again and for the fourth time the Boston aggregation carried off the honors, with a record unsurpassed up to that time, as out of seventy-nine games played they won seventy-one and lost but eight, while the Athletics, who finished in the second place, played seventy-three games in all, losing twenty and winning fifty-three.

He had seventy-three concubines and four hundred and twenty-six children.

Good God, he thought, this is almost November, and only seventy-three rockets have hit London, with twenty-six of them landing in remote suburbs.

After that event Whirlygig was left spinning madly on its axis, completing a full rotation in only seventy-three minutes.

His mental activity, up to the age of seventy-three, is as prodigious as the activity which he had expended in living a multiform and incalculable life.

Could a Chancellor's flaxen-haired daughter, freshened by a strapping young Doctor of Philosophy like those in the Tales, surpass Mary Appenzeller's output of seventy-three pounds of butterfat in her first year's milking?

Sociologists James Bossard and Eleanor Boll, after examining one hundred published autobiographies, found seventy-three in which the writers described procedures which were "unequivocally classifiable as family rituals.

This week the main item on the agenda was the proposed bulldozing of seventy-three acres of mangroves to make room for the back nine of a championship golf course on the shore of North Key Largo.

On the second day out the speed was hit up to seventy-three revolutions and the run for the day was bulletined as 519 miles.

Between the arsenal guards and the strike force, we've already got seventy-three dead soldiers, out there, and a whole air crew.

Seventy-three lots, and by the time the last was sold, an acceptable portion of the ransom money had been washed, cleaned, and ironed through the auction houses' financial departments, and transferred into Argyll's bank account.

With the bald wife who drowned at Fishkill in seventy-two or seventy-three.

The foundations of Terror were all laid by the seventy-three in confinement before they were imprisoned, and by the sixteen who were proscribed before their proscription.

Fifty-thousand, nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-two cents.