Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge called for his Cabinet and received his Secretaries three: Kellogg, Mellon, Jardine. The other seven members were away stumping for various Republican candidates...
Urbane, precise, conservative, rather than dapper; tolerant, rather than genial; exhibiting button shoes, a cold eye, grey hair and long fingers, Henry E. Huntington goes on buying things. At San Marino he breakfasts at seven and reads for an hour, turning the pages carefully. When he is in Los Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things...
...Oliver Lodge, famed spiritist, sound scientist, was besieged but made no public comment on the alleged news from 'Gomaruru" that Martians were seven feet tall, with heavy black hair, slanted eyes, big ears; appetites for tea and tobacco; electric airplanes, gigantic waterpower developments (the "canals...
...seven years, publishers and booksellers have tried to make a virtue of the U. S. habit of having Weeks for things like Safety, Apples, Thrift, and agreed on the second week in November as a time to spread all their books for children on the front show-tables and have the clerks specialize in describing them. Some said that herein flashed a shrewd eye for profit. To which others replied: "What of it? There are more children than ever before, hence there must be more books." Still others added: "And never before were books made for children as they...
...shame to them that they do not care to go further than the outlines and the shell of education, the probabilities are that such a training will be the more beneficial to their chosen paths of life. A college whose enrollment is restricted to five hundred (or, if coeducational, seven hundred) offers a chance for a large measure of individual attention. The student who would feel entirely at sea in one of the larger universities is thus given what he would otherwise lack--occasion to express him-self more easily. When man has learned that there are limits...