Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail was only about 5% of all domestic matter carried. Now it is 63%, the 14- year-old parcel post service having been extensively adopted by manufacturers for delivering their merchandise. The Rural Free Delivery system, inaugurated in 1896, opened up a new mail-advertising field which is now seven million families strong, and parcel post enabled advertisers to fill their mail orders with mail deliveries...
...Duties. Typical of the increases are the following: magnetos, which paid seven francs a kilogram, are now assessed 80 francs a kilogram ? increase 1,100%; fountain pens, admitted on a tariff of five francs a pen, must pay 80% on their value; electrical equipment for automobiles must meet a levy increased by 800%; magneto breaker points and distributors, 1,300% increase; spark plugs, 800% increase. It is to be noted that all these articles are manufactured by Germany...
...cells lives a drab old maid with a parrot. To Mrs. Bowman's son (Douglass Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed...
...hundred and ten text pages, plus some advertisements and a colored cover has just issued from the Doubleday, Page presses in the shape of a magazine called Personality. Three hundred and seventy-seven copies of this sample have been printed and distributed to friends of the publishers...
...Britons. Males five feet nine inches (four inches taller than now), females five feet six or seven inches (two inches taller), skulls proportionally higher and shorter than before-these, said Professor F. G. Parsons of the anthropology division, are characteristics of the typical Britons now evolving in harmony with the conditions of modern life...