Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each others toes. They hopped higher on camp stools. When they could neither hop high enough or howl loud enough to make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...
Whereas last year Schulte Retail Stores formed an alliance with the United Cigar Stores, seemed impregnable, this year cigaret price-cutting slashed into the profits. A report in April disclosed that of seven directors David A. Schulte held 33,000 shares of common stock, Joseph M. Schulte 202, another director 10, the remaining four none. On May 1 the dividend was passed...
...officers, and West Point reverted to normalcy. About three thousand graduates served in this war demonstrating marked ability in the performance of duty. Pershing and March were of the Class of 1886, and 1888; of the forty-one division, corps, and army commanders in the A. E. F., thirty seven were West Pointers...
...form of restrictions placed upon the "plebes." There are restrictions in the mess hall, in barracks, and on the campus. In the mess hall a plebe sits at attention while he eats. His eyes may not wander farther than the perimeter of a circle of radius seven inches, whose center is at the center of his plate; and he must see that all of the upperclassmen at his table are properly supplied with food. In barracks a plebe always removes his hat before entering the room of an upperclassman. He is restricted from using "Diagonal Walk," a shortcut across...
...deals with the sale of phonograph records; and the fact is rather amazing. At a record store in the vicinity of the college, of the total sale a little over a year ago, about ninety-three per cent, were jazz or popular music. At the present time the seven per cent, has risen to forty-five per cent ... approximately, and seems to be increasing...