Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five who are registered for 1927-28, all are men from established positions in state or federal service, two from experiment stations and three from executive or extension departments. These five represent as many schools of forestry: California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania State, Syracuse, and Maine. At the last Commencement seven degrees were given, six masters in forestry and one doctor of science. These men also were from widely scattered localities and were in general capable of doing productive advance work...
After graduating from Annapolis these officers have spent from five to seven years at sea. They have then been selected for special training in radio and electrical work at the University, with one year of post graduate work at Annapolis as a preparation. When they complete their course here next year, they will be given practical training and experience in established firms engaged in electrical work, will finish off with two months of research work at the Bellevue Research Laboratory of the Navy near Washington, D. C., and again resume their posts...
...confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark bank ever since leaving the radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck to hips. Twenty operations have been performed on her jaw. The Treatment. None. There is no way known to medical science of removing the radium from the bones of these doomed young women...
...stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched it quickly. And her home work room ? hung with the musty odor of thread, cloth and warm flat-irons ? became the core of seven large and busy specialty stores ? hung with the musty odor of face-powder, perfume and new clothes...
...weighty women last year sought out those seven stores. Saleswomen, robust like themselves, and no chits, give them courteous attention. They dare try on dresses without the fear of splitting sleeve-seams or waistbands. They can slip into dresses without standing on tiptoe to draw their hips narrower...