Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January 8, 1918, the late President Wilson gave his Fourteen Points to the World. One of them stipulated that all people speaking the same language should be concentrated under the role of one state. Theoretically the ideal expressed is beautiful, but immediately the Italians appropriated German-speaking Tyrol; France took German-speaking Alsace; and the German-speaking Czechs were ignored. As always the rights of the minority were neglected and the few were not consulted...
...almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes in a hard game a champion breaks five or six racquets in succession. They cost fourteen dollars apiece. Court tennis players hold their racquets toward the middle, near where the rivet would be on a tennis racquet. Jay Gould was famous for his "Railroad service" which climbs along the penthouse, dropping almost dead. Etchebaster has a service like Gould...
...President, Mr. Wm. M. Duff, in talking about reading the right kind of books, papers, magazines, etc., mentioned especially TIME. I (Continued on p. 29) personally remarked that I had been an original subscriber. We asked for a call of hands and found that fourteen of the twenty-seven are subscribers to your magazine and everyone was very enthusiastic in his endorsement. C. J. WESTERMANN...
Brides. Matrons of fourteen and fifteen must go to school, said Miss Nellie Flanigan, chief of the compulsory attendance department of Kansas City Schools. Increase of child marriages in Kansas City has increased her work...
...Fourteen expeditions are working in West Asia at present and of these, six are American," were the words of Professor John Garstang, Honorary Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...