Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That fleet in 1921 numbered 140. Last year there were 20 left. Fourteen of them are the personal property of one old man, last of the sailing-ship owners. Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Aland Islands. He makes his fleet pay by carrying no insurance, paying no overhead, allowing no depreciation. The crews consist almost entirely of boy-apprentices, who pay to learn their trade and ''there are always more applicants than vacancies." Two girls signed on for last year's passage, but no women may sail with Captain Villiers again. Said he last week (when...
...genius at the age of fourteen and fully mature at seventeen, Mendelsohn experienced as much activity in his short life of thirty nine years as most men would in two lifetimes and the author has carefully guided the reader through the interesting development of his many struggles and less frequent pleasures...
...himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters in the major leagues. Since then the Al Munro Elias Bureau has become the Dow-Jones of the baseball industry...
...unusually clear picture of the race hatred that still inflames the South. The charge against the intended negro victim was the usual one of rape. No evidence pointed to E.K. Harris, but he was black and handy and was therefore charged with the crime. Subsequent medical examination of the fourteen-year old girl who had aroused the uproar disclosed the fact that she actually had suffered nothing but a few black-and-blue marks. Nevertheless, the mob of white farmers was so infuriated that, failing to capture Harris, it burned down the $150,000 court house...
Probably the best way for a student to learn something about the Houses would be to allow him the privilege of taking several meals in the various units during the second half year upon the invitation of some resident. If the Freshmen were allowed to take fourteen meals in the Houses this would give them an opportunity to visit each twice. The difference of eight dollars and eight dollars and a half in the board charges at the Union and the Houses only means a loss of two cents a meal and only a maximum of a few hundred dollars...