Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Eugene Arnett, 62, wealthy, eccentric recluse; after two abdominal operations; in Oklahoma City, Okla. After earning $1,000,000 in seven years in insurance, Arnett retired, took up secret studies of archaeology, eugenics, Greek philosophy, medicine, law, agriculture, drainage, geology, manufacturing, commerce, anthropology. He bought 60,000 books, hired 17 assistants. For a time he worked 100 hours, ate only one large meal, read at least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which...
Last April the commodity markets of the world were at seven-year highs when President Roosevelt's announcement that he considered the prices of durable goods excessive, sent copper, lead, wheat tobogganing...
...this on the ground that the system of subsidiary operating companies, pyramided to a peak in Wall Street, provides an irresistible chance to overcapitalize at the expense of stockholder and consumer. Hence, while Electric Bond & Share"undertook a major court battle against the holding company "death sentence," United presented seven successive plans to SEC, all designed to enable it to continue to exist in the form of an investment trust. Having turned all the plans down, SEC anticipated few friendly overtures. When these suddenly came from Mr. Whitney about the time that Franklin Roosevelt declared a truce between...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME...
...genuine scrap of Shakespeare's handwriting were found, it should interest everybody but Baconians. For years scholars have known only seven authentic specimens of his signature, three of them in his will. Last fortnight in Salt Lake City, Professor Benjamin Roland Lewis displayed a small piece of paper cut or torn from an old document, with a common contemporary spelling of the bard's name-William Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper...