Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM-T. E. Lawrence-Doubleday, Doran...
...other measures, friends of the National Labor Relations Act passed by Congress last July were on the alert for a test case which would let the Government put its best foot foremost. Last October, Associated Press abruptly discharged one of its Manhattan staffmen named Morris Watson, explained that after seven years it was "dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' fledgling union with which AP had just refused to bargain concerning its shift from a five...
...Seven years out of Yale, Horace Taft founded Taft School in 1890, soon housed it in an old hotel at Watertown. Conn. Nourished by the eminence of the Taft name, it grew until by 1914 it was delivering up some 25 boys a year to Yale, plus a few to Harvard and Princeton. Headmaster Taft became the idol of his students and got on famously with parents, most of whom smiled at his long devotion to the cause of Prohibition. By 1927 the school ranked among the best in the country and Mr. Taft turned it over to a board...
Lawrence P. Fisher, vice president of General Motors, is one of the seven famed Fisher Body Brothers. Husky Mr. Fisher, a blacksmith's son, is himself a skilled blacksmith. His art collection includes Romney's portrait of the Duchess of Sutherland. Last year Mr. Fisher drew...
...Brooklyn, as firemen fought into a blaze in the office of Dentist Irving Winter, ten gross of toothbrushes with composition handles exploded, injuring seven firemen, two of them seriously...