Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student's capabilities are being realized. This however, is a minor point. The important thing is that the undergraduate's summer has become steadily more active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge in any other time besides winter. By travel, manual labor, diverse means, he can both busy...
...Commons did not repeat last week its orgy of personal revilement of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 16). Instead steady filibustering by Laborites was pursued to the extent of offering some 350 destructive amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
...thwarted. Soon the banks announced "voluntarily" an arbitrary reduction of all loans to market operators of 25%, with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline of all stocks was 45 points. Glazed textiles, quoted on the former bull market at seven times their par, tobogganed almost instantly 150 points. On the other great German stock exchanges in Frankfort, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., the collapse was, of course, equally terrific...
...those early days, people could become trustees of Drake University by paying $1,000 down. But in 1908 reformation came. Drake got a new charter and the approval of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its endowment grew into six and later seven figures. It is striving to become as well-known for scholarship as for its annual relay races. Its latest merger is a bid for efficiency, not monopoly...
...Daily editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages are becoming commonplace in a half-dozen cities in the U. S. Sunday (or Saturday) editions of less than 100 pages are considered puny. The Sunday New York Times has appeared with 240 pages-the paper of which could easily make seven octavo volumes of 300 pages each. This bulk will not abate, according to Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who has taken out more patents on printing machinery than any other man. In last week's Editor & Publisher, he predicted the coming of "the 100-page daily newspaper-magazine" in less...