Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frock coat, F. A. Chapman, auctioneer, was speaking with the strictest accuracy.] I think I cannot do less than start them at $10,000.... Five?... All right, we all of us have to get warmed up... Six?... You are too generous, Sir.... Who'll give me seven?... I have seven. Eight?. . . Will nobody... Oh, many thanks. I am your debtor, madame; you owe me nothing.... And now nine?... I have nine; I have ten... ten thousand dollars. That was, I think, my first suggestion.... Eleven?... It is still eleven. Eleven and two fifty... eleven and three quarters... twelve...
...married thrice), four were newspaper people, James E., George H., Edward W., and herself. Of these only Edward W. survives with her, having founded the Scripps-McRae syndicate of 28 newspapers. Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped...
...merging institutions will pool their resources. Besides the $25,000,000 Chase Security Corp., the Chase National puts in its foreign branches at Havana, Cristobal and Panama City and its seven branches in New York City. The Mechanics & Metals contributes its 13 New York City branches, and will become a branch office of the consolidation, which for at least the present will use the headquarters of the Chase National. Certain competing branches will be wiped out to afford economies. Other savings will result from a smaller, combined overhead...
...Freshmen have a very impressive record of seven wins and only one tie. The lone team which has the distinction of holding the Freshmen to even terms is the Melrose High sextet which tied the first year players two weeks ago when the condition of the rink prohibited an extra period to allow the game to come to a decision This is the first time the Freshmen have met a college first year team this year and is the first game of the major series with the Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton Freshmen...
Under this plan the waiters were to work in two shifts of 16 waiters each, every other day and alternate Sundays. They were required to be in the dining hall seven hours and 20 minutes a day, of which time one half hour before each meal was allowed for eating, making a total of five hours and 50 minutes of actual work. Thus in a bi-weekly period the waiters were to work 40 hours and 50 minutes, for which they would receive 21 meals and $8.00 in cash (or meals), that is the equivalent of two weeks' meals less...