Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century later the college had lost almost everything but its past. The Civil War stripped it of students, burned its buildings. Starting anew after the war, it struggled along until 1881 before closing its doors once more, this time for seven years. The State lent a hand in its reopening, took it over in 1906. By 1918, when women students were first admitted, the college of Jefferson and Marshall was little more than a third-rate normal school, with 131 students...
...Mollisons had landed at Karachi to refuel, had taken off only to be forced back ten minutes later with landing-gear trouble. Seven hours behind the leader was Roscoe Turner. At Bagdad he became confused, made a down-wind landing, nearly cracked up. Stuck in Paris was Captain Stack with his complete newsreel of the flight's start...
...race came just before dawn of the third day, when burly Lieutenant Scott and dapper Captain Black flew their scarlet Comet into Darwin. They had covered the last 300 miles over water on one motor, risked death landing on a field made soggy by the first rain in seven months. Said sandy-haired Lieutenant Scott: "We've had a devil of a trip." But they had flown 9,000 miles in two days, had broken the England-Australia record of 162 hr. in the unbelievable time of 52 hr. 33 min., were only 2,000 miles from their goal...
Morrow Castle. "Twenty-two years ago this month the greatest catastrophe in the history of the seven seas shocked the civilized world. The S.S. Titanic . . . struck a monster iceberg. The tragedy chilled our blood and stirred our hearts. Twenty-two hundred and eight human souls were on board; 1,501 were lost. . . . The great Captain E. J. Smith, as befits the heroism of the sea, stuck to the finish and went down with the ship. . . . His refusing to [save himself] gave even death a redeeming feature...
...Washington office last week Mr. Jones summoned the heads of the seven major roads that connect with M. & St. L. Let the corpse of M. & St. L. be cut into seven pieces, Mr. Jones suggested, each of the connecting carriers buying one piece. RFC would, if necessary, prefer to lend them the purchase price rather than try to resuscitate M. & St. L. itself with cash direct. The seven big lines-Great Northern, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Milwaukee, Chicago & North Western and Burlington-seemed to like the Jones "thought." Adjourning to Chicago, they ordered a thorough technical investigation...