Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Dr. Leta Stetter Hollingworth, a plump, motherly professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, all her life deplored mankind's inhumanity to geniuses. Eighteen years ago, as an experiment, she picked 50 of the brightest children (I. Q. 130 to 200)* in New York City, started two special classes for them at Public School 165, near Columbia. Like Stanford University's Professor Lewis M. Terman (TIME, Oct. 14), who for 18 years has followed the careers of 1,300 gifted Californians, Dr. Hollingworth watched her "geniuses" as they grew...
...Eighteen important volumes of Americans, filling gaps in the Harvard collections, were presented by Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29, of Corning, N. Y. Included in the gift were a first editionof Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse," 1650; a first edition of William Wood's "New Englands Prospect," 1634, the first detailed account of Massachusetts; and the only known copy of one of the earliest books printed by William Bradford in New York, "Some Seasonable Considerations for the good People of Connections...
According to James H. Robinson's History of Western Europe, "during the World War . . . nearly eight million were killed in battle, and over eighteen million wounded. Of those who recovered, perhaps a quarter or more were permanently mutilated or crippled for life. The loss among the civilian populations was tremendous . . . perhaps seventeen millions of lives." These people would undoubtedly be glad to take their chances in Harvard Square, but unfortunately are in no position to say anything about it, being thoroughly and permanently deceased...
...before adjournment, the meeting voted to conduct a post-card referendum of the entire membership. Eighteen members were absent...
...defeat Spain, the wily Cardinal saw that he must ally himself with the German Protestants. Before he could safely ally himself with the German Protestants, he must crush their allies in France, the Huguenots. Hence the first blow against Catholic Spain was the destruction of the French Protestants. Eighteen years later, Richelieu had crippled Spain, tamed the French nobles, made the King supreme in France, France supreme in Europe...