Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statement. Chancellor Churchill declared publicly: "The Government would never have secured passage for the bill extending the hours of mine labor from seven to eight (TIME, July 12) had they known that the owners would thereupon refuse to discuss a national wage settlement. The Government never thought for a moment that opening the door* for district settlements meant shutting it in the face of a national settlement. We wish both doors to be open and settlements to be achieved through both...
...Extending the hours of labor made it possible for the coal owners to offer higher wages and thus tempt the miners back to work through the "door" of regional agreements which they would not have contracted at the seven-hour wage...
...Minute to Play (Harold ["Red"] Grange). There is the usual collegiate hokum, with a big football game as the finishing liqueur. Alma Mater Parmalee needs seven points to win. Star halfback "Red" Wade sits on the sidelines because his father does not believe in rough sports and the coach thinks he ("Red") has been drinking. One minute to play -vindication-substitution-"Red" Wade has the pigskin under his arm. The Galloping Ghost is off-long strides, mighty stiff-arm, eely hips, a broken field-a touchdown, a kicked goal, and victory. "Red", of course, is vindicated before the college...
...flame in a glass tube on Dr. E. E. Hall's lecture desk. Near the tube was a radio transmitter. No one tampered with the gas supply, yet the gas flame was made to flare up, turn from yellow to blue and roar. Dr. Hall explained that seven miles away, in the General Electric Co.'s laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted by radio, affected the gas flame as would the vibrations set up by a tuning...
...Trek to the heart of Africa and you will not leave the automobile behind you; in fact, a Cape-to-Cairo airplane may pass overhead any day. Last month the British press announced the death of Charles St. John, 86, last white survivor of Missionary David Livingstone's seven-year expedition to find the watershed between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, central Africa (1866-73). Concurrently there were reports of modern expeditions, coming and going...