Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just returned from the Universal Conference on Life and Work at Stockholm, the Rev. Henry C. Swearingen last week called to order the "Special Commission of Fifteen" of the Presbyterian Church. The Commissioners gathered in a private room in the Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City. The fourteen present were...
...provide the exceptional student with greater freedom for development by reducing course requirements to fourteen (or fifteen including English A) for candidates for distinction. This would allow such students to take three courses in their Junior year and three in their Senior year, and to do a much greater amount of tutorial work than is now possible. To prevent abuse of these privileges by the unworthy, permission to work for distinction should be made contingent upon the tutor's recommendation at the end of a student's Sophomore year, and in rare cases at the end of his Junior year...
...wrenching, a crunching, a howling of steel, and "Everyone beat it" cried one of the 15. Colonel Hall, as he sprang to the ladder, scrambled up. Fourteen men were left...
...active police became still more active, discovered a third bomb, in- tended to blow up the royal train as it passed through a tunnel on its return journey to Madrid. Fourteen arrests were made, but each of the prisoners denied all knowledge of the plot...
...most remarkable records ever enjoyed by a single athlete in competition against the Big Three. The Worcester leader has wound up his brilliant record, which includes his famous 1 to 0 loss in the duel with Caldwell two years ago, and the revenge he took in fourteen innings last year, by a brilliant success this year. He figured in two set-backs of the Blue, one of which he won himself when his two strike-outs and a triple gave the Holy Cross nine a 7 to 6 win, he defeated Princeton 4 to 1, and helped to pile...