Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tabulated statistics of a baseball game, commonly known as the "box score" are from seven to fourteen columns of figures (depending on the detail with which the game is reported). The last column on the right is headed "E," which stands for "error." Here are recorded the players' single "mechanical mistakes"?the dropped fly, the fumbled grounder, the ball that should have been fielded and was not. The story of a baseball game is told largely in terms of hits by the attacking side and errors by the defense...
...Fourteen men will make the trip to West Point. They are: Captain J. F. Carr '28, Bernard Barnes '30, A. R. Blackburn '29, Durk Bodde '30, E. F. Clark '28, N. R. Danielian '28, L. LaT. Driggs '28, H. C. Haskell '28, S. C. Henry '28, Louis Kerness '29, A. S. Rudd '29, Reed Ryan '29, A. M. Stollmeyer '30, and W. D. Vogel...
...will do everything for an author but write his book; and for a reader, everything but read it. In England the famed firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., is the property of the new company, hav ing been controlled for some time by Doubleday, Page. William Heinemann is dead. Fourteen miles outside of London stands the Heineman plant. The total list of active titles of these combined companies (including lesser subsidiaries) will be about 4,000. Doubleday, Doran authors include: Cobb Conrad...
Parcel Post. Fourteen years ago these 50 offices would have consti- tuted no business index, because in 1913 fourth-class mail was only about 5% of all domestic matter carried. Now it is 63%, the 14- year-old parcel post service having been extensively adopted by manufacturers for delivering their merchandise. The Rural Free Delivery system, inaugurated in 1896, opened up a new mail-advertising field which is now seven million families strong, and parcel post enabled advertisers to fill their mail orders with mail deliveries...
...Fourteen months ago such a tide of resentment was at the flood. It might have led King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...