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Word: fourteeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have . . . been fourteen years a resident within the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eligible | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...title of Mr. Hemingway's latest work describes its essential virility. It is filled with the hard contacts, the bruising truths, and unpleasant realities of life as the author has observed it. In "Men Without Women", Mr. Hemingway presents a collection of fourteen short stories. Their protagonists are variously toreadors, snow birds, prize fighters, and other less important people. All the tales are tense, highly nervous situations, but in writing them. Mr. Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes...

Author: By B.h. ROWLAND Jr. ., | Title: Two Views of Life: Milne and Hemingway | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Book should please intelligent people who hitherto have been able to find the work of George Bellows extensively displayed only in galleries. It contains a preface by Thomas Beer; is three-quarters of an inch thick, twelve inches wide, fourteen inches long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bellows Book | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...special telephone, telegraph and airplane arrangements. This would seem the most ordinary of precautions, but its unlovely materialism had previously been absent in the rosy abstractions of diplomatic oratory. It seems as though the action of the League is nearly always tardy or indecisive when it depends upon the fourteen chair-holding and voting nations. For example, the Americans who feared the six-to-one British voting ratio will not be mollified to learn that this year Canada has been elected to a voting place. The assurance by the Imperial Government that the colonies are autonomous communities within the British...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY DEGREES | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Fourteen new candidates reported to W.S. Carroll '29, president of the Harvard Gun Club, at the opening meeting of the club held last night at 53 Dunster Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Club to Meet With Yale | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

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