Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among some 1,300 victims have been the President and Premier of two Union Republics, both suicides; a most illustrious Marshal of the Red Army and seven of his Generals, all shot; the onetime Chief of the Soviet Munitions Trust, shot; even the Editor of the Soviet State's own newsorgan Izvestia, who was arrested. In Russia, where it is impossible to throw up one's job and flee, since the greater part of the Soviet frontier is sealed with barbed wire and guarded day and night, the number of suicides among Russians of consequence is said...
...throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there are many claimants. These are weeded to three, whose names are placed in a golden vase from which...
...Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted to U. S. railroads (TIME, April 26). As a result of these experiments the Pullman Co. last week had 37 new Roomettes building in Chicago, plans for 60 more cars including improved drawing...
...built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...year she was broken up for scrap. Meantime work was again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined in 1929, the Columbus filled in with her two big sisters for the transatlantic busy season, began her famed winter cruises...