Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aimed to master the intricacies of accounting, 23% ranged in academic ability between the average seventh-grader and the high school junior. To the study of electrical engineering, architecture and chemical engineering, only 20% of the Minnesota aspirants had brought high-school training. More than one-sixth had not finished grade school. Considerably less than half of the would-be advertising men, lawyers, executives had finished high school...
...perhaps almost too obvious to call attention to the change that this will bring about in the face of the University as a whole. There will no longer be those who enjoy a scholarship at Harvard on the strength of ability to get A's: the upper seventh of the student-body will consist--as will the faculty to an even larger degree--of a group of original thinkers, the balance of those attracted by the principles and glamer of the former, and the rest of us can go elsewhere...
Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
...Edgar Allan Poe took his 20-year-old wife Virginia Clemm and his mother-in-law to a "rose-covered cottage" at No. 530 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia. There he wrote The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat. In 1929 the cottage, ramshackle and slum-shadowed, was purchased by Department Storeman Richard Gimbel who founded a Memorial Society to preserve it. On Poet Poe's 125th birthday last week 1,500 guests of the Society heard his praise spoken by Owen D. Young, Heywood Broun, William Lyon Phelps, saw the cottage dedicated to his memory...
...pious German named Johann Conrad Beissel emigrated to Pennsylvania, gathered about him a small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., he built a big three-story cloister which he named "The Sharon." Into this cloister with his male & female followers he retired to pursue the spiritual ideal of the "Woman of the Wilderness." Changing his name to Father Friedsam "The Peaceful," Beissel was the first prior of the Ephrata Community.* He was followed by big Peter Miller, called "Jabez." The community grew to 300. After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed...