Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive to sounds within the range of 50 to 10,000 vibrations per second, which is equivalent to about eight octaves. The most sensitive human ear can register sounds as low as 20 cycles and as high as 20,000 cycles, a range of about 10 octaves. The seven and one-half octaves, on a piano reach from 27 to 4176 cycles, while the greatest extent of human voice is 80 to 1950 cycles, or only about three and one-half octaves...
...Robert Todd Lincoln, U. S. Minister to the Court of St. James's, officially warned his fellow countrymen that "shares" in the fortune of the celebrated British seaman were nonexistent. Three years ago Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown broke a precedent by making public the names of seven citizens to whom the use of the mails had been denied because they had accepted "donations" from aspirants to the Drake heritage (TIME, Jan. 23, 1933). At that time the Solicitor of the Postoffice Department announced: "There has never been any record of any unsettled or undistributed...
...Lorand orchestramen know what it is to rehearse twelve hours a day, seven days a week. They are not allowed to answer back, not allowed to overeat, discouraged from marrying. But in spite of their rigorous discipline, their playing has the lush abandon which distinguishes almost all Hungarian orchestras, takes on particular magic late at night when good wine keeps them company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert...
...crowd, usually greedy for "color," that curious amalgam of arrogance and nonchalance, this time preferred Oldster Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...
...been discovered that, as the field is strongest near the poles and weakest at the Equator, so is the cosmic ray bombardment strong or weak with changing latitude. Later a longitude differential was found. Last week, with intensity figures for electroscopes carried on nine ships sailing the seven seas. Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's cosmic ray luminary, told the academicians that the rays are stronger in India and the Eastern Hemisphere generally than in the Western, interpreted this to mean that Earth, as a magnet, is lopsided...