Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...
Sulfapyridine, one of the 1,000 relatives of sulfanilamide, acts on all 32 types of pneumonia. First used in England last year by Pathologist Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby of London's Middlesex Hospital, the drug was given a seven-month workout by conservative experimenters in hospitals all over...
...great Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature...
Enclosed in the 40-by-120-yard transept of Dartmouth College's vast, cruciform gymnasium at Hanover, N. H. lies the fastest foot-racing track in the world. It was laid seven years ago on the college's 30-year-old indoor cinder track so that Dartmouth boys competing in big indoor meets could accustom themselves to board tracks. But in building it, Dartmouth's Buildings Superintendent Willard Gooding made a few constructive errors...
...electric power, gas, water, telephones. The toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...