Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin had demanded the temporary substitution of an eight hour miners' day for the seven hour schedule. For almost the first time in his career he was unable to command the undivided attention of the House. "You are going...
...stramash of interruptions. He had no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Under present conditions the coal mining industry could not support the miners' standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the Miners' Federation apostrophized Premier Baldwin in a public speech: "You say, Mr. Baldwin, that you have no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Baldwin...
...highest academic distinction that can be won by a graduate of Harvard College, a degree "Summa sum Laude", was shared by seven men, as compared to the 15 who won it last year. These men were Eliot Morris Bailen of Dorcheter, George William Cottrell Jr. of Cleveland, O., Lester Ginsburg of Dorchester, Henry Melvin Hart Jr. of Spokane. Wash., Stanley Jasspon Kunitz of Worcester, Philip Edward Moseley of Westfield, and Norman Schur of Cambridge. Hart was Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, and a member of the Student Council Committee on Education. Moseley is an editor of the CRIMSON...
...moist, murmurous Indian nights a British captain sat behind a bush with an elephant gun on his knees, waiting for Satan. On the other side of the bush a goat was tethered, for it was known that Satan had an appetite for goats. For seven years the Black God had padded on cat feet over 350 square miles of Western Garhwal; in that time he had killed 125 humans, snatching them in village streets, at the very doors of houses. Sixteen Indian shimkaris, paid by the government, had shot at him and missed; gun traps, arsenic, cyanide and prayer...