Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...targets already broken-in strings of 25, 23, 25-Watts knew that he needed a 23 to tie, a 24 to win. Moving slowly around the half-circle he fired with concentrated rapidity and precision. He broke the first 14 without a miss, then the critical 15th and 16th from the centre station. Now came the doubles, at stations Nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7. He powdered the first three pairs and moved to station No. 8, needing one to tie, two to win. As both targets fell in bits to earth he threw off his hat, called...
...well have forgotten it because she was four up and it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's game had cracked completely. By lunch time, she had cause to brood about that putt again;.her opponent had cut her lead to two, with a fine four at the 16th and a good putt for another at the 18th. In the afternoon, with the wind dying down, they halved the first hole and Virginia Van Wie won the second, with a par 5 to Helen Hicks...
...approval of the so-called bombing is based first, on the 13th, 14th, null and 16th verses of the 2nd Chapter of the Gospel according to St. John.* Secondly it was as effective as an act of violence yet caused the destruction of neither life nor property. In this respect it is superior to the justly praised Boston Tea Party. Finally, by being subject to a mild wave of tear gas, I believe those in and about the Stock Exchange may begin to realize the tremendous amount of bitterness which is constantly growing in our midst as the result...
Every Jesuit college in the world periodically gets a new president, personally chosen in Rome by the "Black Pope''-the Jesuit General. Last week, for the 16th time, Loyola University in Chicago changed presidents. Rev. Robert Michael Kelley, S.J. was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S.J. who has been eleven years on Loyola's staff...
...side. All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...