Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven years ago Artist Wright went to the directors of the Santa Monica library, offered to paint murals in the reading room free as a memorial to his father. The offer was abruptly refused. Last year he made his offer again, provided that he be reimbursed for the cost of paints, canvas, white lead, etc. Regional PWA Director Merle W. Armitage headed a committee that raised $1,000, and last week the murals were up, 2,000 sq. ft. of them, in 38 panels...
...cameramen before watchful U. S. L. T. A. officials restored it to its Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham vault. To take the $500 silver Cup away from Forest Hills, a U. S. champion tennist must win the tournament three times. Since the late William A. Larned, who held the championship seven times, won his second Cup in 1910, only one player has actually got his hands on a U. S. Men's Singles Cup. That was William Tatem Tilden, who did it twice, once in 1922, again in 1925, and holds one leg on the present trophy. If Perry succeeds...
Lead v. Cancer. To the indignation of other cancer specialists who have found lead treatments ineffective for cancer, Dr. Arnold Erwin Osterberg & associates of Rochester, Minn. insisted that they cured seven cases of hopeless cancer by giving the patients enough lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg...
Meanwhile in Manhattan the salaries of three prime cinemagnates were revealed last week when Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. registered two security issues with SEC. Fox stockholders had approved seven-year contracts calling for annual payments of approximately $200,000 to President Sidney R. Kent, $250,000 to Vice President Darryl Zanuck and $125,000 to Chairman Joseph M. Schenck. Total for the three is $575,000 a year, or nearly 50? a share on the common stock of the new company. When a Fox stockholder objected to these payments at a stockholders' meeting last fortnight, President Kent silenced...
Never noted for speed, the Olympic achieved her greatest fame in the War when she safely transported 25,000 troops in the Gallipoli campaign, some 200,000 more to & from the U. S. and Canada, sank one German submarine, repelled seven others, rescued the crew of the sinking H. M. S. Audacious. Converted to oil after the Armistice, she settled down in the transatlantic run, where she again made news by sinking the Nantucket Lightship last year (TIME...