Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upping battleship tonnages by 10,000 is like stepping from a twelve into a 16-cylinder car. Last week the U. S. Navy also prepared to get itself a motorcycle. It awarded to seven civilian designers prizes for motor torpedo ("mosquito") boats, 54 to 70-footers which any fireside sailor can comprehend...
...find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied the party recorded that Trujillo was a wonderful fellow, that bootblacks wiped his guests' shoes for nothing and collected later from the dictator...
Social Security having paid out only $11,000,000 on old-age benefits (to Dec. 31 last) is rapidly piling up a huge reserve. By 1980, as the act now reads, the reserve would amount to $47,000,000,000 (about seven times the amount of money now circulating...
...Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...
Among other disciplines it was necessary to learn to do without sleep. This was because he lived with wealthy, sophisticated Tibetan Minister Tsarong Shapé, and was much entertained. Tsarong Shapé and his set, who lived in modern houses with radio and plumbing, liked to eat seven-hour meals, go to horse races, nine-hour plays, shoot dice, and talk about such things as amateur photography...