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Word: fourteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Macaques to Santiago | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Originally from Nashville, Dr. Moore writes ten to twelve of the fourteen line poems every day, including Sundays and holidays. He has a private medical practice, has written a number of long and scholarly medical papers, belongs among other associations to the Neurological Supper Club. He is also a semi-professional long distance swimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SONNET A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY--SO THEY SAY | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Smoking in dying out at Yale. Only fourteen per cent of the freshmen use the weed. - Columbia Spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

Socrates sat up on his couch and rubbed his leg where the chains had grated against the skin. Dusty streaks of the afternoon sun cut through the prison window. At his feet fourteen men squatted on the floor and marvelled at his quiet courage in the face of--death. Was this death, they thought, do men ever die this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

...Fourteen years ago Eleanor Getzendaner, a young wrangler who was riding as a jockey at outlaw tracks and country fairs, saw Elmer Gantry when he was a thoroughbred yearling on a southwestern Nebraska ranch. She tried to buy him, failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Elmer Gantry | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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