Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During March a rumble of warning came when seven banks suspended payments. The first thunder clap (TIME, April 18), was the announcement by Japan's richest woman, Mme. Yone Suzuki that her enormous importing and exporting firm would delay payments on its $250,000,000 obligations. Forthwith came another thunderbolt-suspension by the great Bank of Taiwan, chief creditor of Suzuki...
This is Dr. Farnell's theory. Of 38 sleeping sickness cases he has treated, only two have died. Seven have recovered completely; four are approaching recovery; the rest seem to be improving. This is an excellent record for cures of a high-death-rate disease. The death rate is 21% generally, 50% in epidemics, according to tabulations of Dr. Herbert H. Waite of the University of Nebraska...
Five thousand terror-gripped onlookers watched airmen rush into the air with seven planes to warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards...
...played lor seven seasons on the Princeton football team, there being in his day (1884-90) no rule barring freshmen and divinity students. *She was president of the Cecil National Bank, Port Deposit, Md. (1898-1905) and of the National Bank of Elton...
Christ is shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers...