Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven generations the Hidalgos have been encausticists. Several Catholic churches in Mexico own today wax figures molded by Luis Hidalgo's great-great-grandfather. Luis Hidalgo uses no molds, carves directly in blocks of beeswax without any preliminary studies, guards a secret process that enables the figures, once carved, to resist a heat of 110° Fahrenheit without melting. All that he will say about it is that it is a mixture of four acids...
...pirated many an examination from professors' rooms, sold questions and answers at fixed prices. Failing this, he stationed himself in a toilet near the examination room. Students took their questions to him there, bought answers. Early last week, with evidence in hand, Student President Jack Pool and seven fellow investigators retired to a dormitory room, locked the door, drew the shades. While the campus buzzed with rumor, they worked day & night checking 98 cheating cases with University records. Four days after the first raid all was ready. Lest Cartland be mobbed by his angry clients he was sent...
Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
When Pianist Artur Schnabel announced that this year in Manhattan he would play the 32 Beethoven sonatas, skeptics shook their heads, wondered how even Schnabel would dare to challenge a public with a dose so tremendous. The cycle at Carnegie Hall would require seven stiff programs, one a week for seven weeks. Pianist Schnabel is not a glamorous figure, but a stubby, square-headed little Austrian who stalks woodenly on stage, seats himself leisurely at his piano, waits for quiet, proceeds to play as if he had no audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment...
...very moderate indebtedness. Besides, he could swap his one and one-fifth shares of new preferred for six shares of new common, and he had one share of new common thrown in as a gift. Assuming that he would convert his stock, what he would get would be seven shares of common for each Class B share...