Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from above the bone layer, we went half way up the cliff and arched in a hole about seven by ten feet. Then we removed the matrix down to the bones and chopped a ditch around a slab which measured a few inches larger than five by eight feet. We were very fortunate in striking an unusually thick layer of bones, as our slab averaged about 16 inches...
...Digest mailed its ballots to nineteen million voters and about one in seven have marked them and sent them back. Is this one-seventh a fair sample of the whole body of voters? If not, the real meaning of the poll will not appear on the face of the returns...
...class of 1932 leads the list of the number of placements in the meet with 14 to its credit. 1930 follows with 10, 1931 with nine, and 1929 with seven. The only landslide was the shot put event, of which the first three places were taken by Freshmen...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis is 78, is dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years the senior of Glenn Hammond Curtiss. Charles Michael Schwab (Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Julius Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck & Co.) are 66. Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone...
...another group of men remained to be invited to the Conference of Major Industries. Meat-packers announced a list of seven speakers who should interpret, jointly and severally, "The Current Situation." Impressive were names, titles, themes, as follows: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President, American Construction Council (Building and Construction); Harold Higgins Franklin Swift, Swift & Co. (Meat-packing); Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman Finance Committee, U. S. Steel Corp. (Iron and Steel); Charles Franklin Kettering, President, General Motors Research Corp. (Automobiles); Walter Sherman Gifford, President A. T. & T. (Communication); Frank Brett Noyes, President, The Associated Press (Printing and Publishing); Charles Edwin Mitchell, President...