Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right lane, while Hasler followed down the middle to receive Dewey's pass and drive it past Thouron. Despite an eager but unorganized attack while their opponents were short-handed, the Crimson was unable more nearly to even the count. At 18.36 Kammer scored Princeton's final goal and fourteen seconds later Duffey passed to Dewey for the last tally of the game...
After the usual drill yesterday afternoon, Coach Wesley Fesley pared the Varsity basketball squad to fourteen men in preparation for the team's first tilt against Boston University which will be played in the New Indoor Athletic Building gymnasium a week from today...
...dollars more that that at Harvard, but the maximum is only $400 per man, nearly two hundred below that at Harvard. For food, the College resident pays $8 for twenty-one meals, fifty cents less than in the Houses. Yale has copied Harvard in fixing the prices for fourteen or seven meals per week at a much higher proportional rate. Another plan devised at Cambridge and copied at New Haven is the special emergency employment plan whereby jobs are created for residents of the Houses or Colleges as the case...
...utter folly of prohibition is not so much that it gives rise to law-breaking of every description, as that it disregards a fundamental trait of man: deny him something and he wants it more than ever. If our fourteen years under this travesty of legislation have done nothing else, they have conclusively proved that man's habits cannot be regulated...
...have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma. A series of operations restored her sight, but her eyes have always troubled her. Born Annie Sullivan, the daughter of poor Irish immigrants in Massachusetts...