Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nieuw Amsterdam ran into genuine rough weather. Officials aboard beamed with satisfaction. She proved not only seaworthy but exceptionally steady. Three days later, however, they discovered an error in their careful Dutch calculations: Designed to make 21½ knots, the Nieuw Amsterdam did 23 without pushing and as a "seven-day ship" made her first crossing of the Atlantic...
...could never make up that distance. Suddenly a roar went up. "Look at Dauber!" The Du Pont colt had suddenly started to flash past the horses in front of him as though they were telegraph poles. He overtook them one by one, splashing mud in their blinkered faces, finished seven lengths in front of the tired crop of three-year-olds who found the mile-and-three-sixteenths too long a distance...
...Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish vaudeville comedian, slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Strathaven home, banged his face, bumped his thigh...
...were custodians of free cash balances of $245,562,000 belonging to customers. After sampling 60 presumably representative firms with aggregate free customers' balances of $51,349,000, Exchange accountants last week confirmed Mr. Simmons' assertion. The Exchange discovered a general disregard of a joint opinion of seven law firms representing the largest brokerage firms on the Exchange. This opinion, written in 1934 as an aftermath of the Banking Act of 1933 which divorced deposit banking from underwriting and brokerage, held that brokerage firms could legally keep their huge customers' balances so long as they segregated them...
JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS-Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). From the unpublished, pencil-smudged journals of the famous U. S. naturalist, John Muir, a fragmentary, 440-page selection which rightfully belongs with his seven published journals. Readers may deplore the book's jumbled effect, but will agree that it succeeds with rare effect in communicating the freshness of mountains and deep woods...