Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Lakes (TIME, Nov. 22) Canada is as much to blame as the Chicago Drainage Canal. The diversion of water through the Chicago Drainage Canal has lowered the Great Lakes' level six inches, whereas the Welland Canal and the St. Clair River gravel dredgings have lowered it seven inches. By an expenditure of $3,600,000 on compensating works, the level could be raised 14 inches...
...play that, seemingly, is bound for nowhere in particular. Slug, a roving farmhand, marries a hired girl. She shrinks from announcing to him the expected advent of Slug Jr., wherefore he, unhampered by consciousness of impending paternal responsibilities, takes to the high road once more. When he returns after seven years, he discovers his daughter (surprise!) and his former wife in the home of another man, a sedentary creature who has taken on the domestic burdens for the entire period, is entitled, therefore, by law, to permanent possession of both woman and child. So Slug roams off again. Louis Calhern...
Speed was no object for they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean...
Whatever their true nature they are a beautiful fish, yellow and black, and seemed to me more substantial food than the ordinary trout. They vary in length; our guide said he had seen one 28 inches long, but our party had to be satisfied with six or seven inches, although they saw many big ones. At our last camp on lower Rock Creek the guide caught his limit (twenty fish) and gave them to us to take back to Pasadena. He cleaned them, hung them up for the night to dry, packed them in canvas, and then inside a roll...
...Cottonwood Canyon, and so to our first camp, a circuit of about 100 miles in six days. The next day, we started at 5 o'clock. Deducting the time taken or towing a disabled car from the mountain road, and for breakfast, we made the 217 miles in seven and one-half hours. This time prompts a comparison between Professor Whitney and his sides in the sixties and the present. We travelled five of the eight days on horseback over good trails, one day afoot, and 434 miles by auto in two short days...