Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish Telegraph Agency alarmed from Jerusalem: "A force led by Sheik Ed Dowilsh with 1,400 camels is marching toward Irak. . . . Twenty-two [British] airplanes and seven tanks have been despatched to the frontier of Transjordania to protect the territory from . . . Ibn Saud...
...flash lasts a few millionths of a second but years have been spent in building up its strength. Seven years ago the Pittsfield laboratory announced 1,000,000 volts, four years later this figure was doubled. Still the work goes on. The present power, 3,600,000 volts, is the highest ever obtained by man; about 17 times greater than the highest voltage transmission line in this country; and far beyond any voltage produced by natural lightning on transmission lines...
...Seven snake eggs lay for seventy-seven years, sealed in a tree in Tullahoma, Tenn. Strong men came and split the tree, exposing an iron spike of the kind first used in the construction of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad in 1851. Around the spike was a decayed hole about five inches long, in which lay the tough, rubbery snake eggs. Having the good of Tullahoma at heart, down to the lowest snake, Mayor W. J. Davidson took the eggs to his heated office and gave them a place in the sun, atop his desk. Last week he noticed...
Beniamino Gigli (tenor) was last week as fidgety as the man who wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon...
...Charities, president of national trade associations. Yet all his life he was a sailor-man at heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years he navigated the seven seas, as boy, able seaman, master mariner. He saw mutinies, endured shipwreck, felt the stiff kick of weather in typhoonous China seas. In the home port of old Newburyport one day he met Alice, daughter of Banker Albert W. Greenleaf, aristocratic Massachussets name, courted, married, took his bride...