Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smiddy, dynamic, told convincingly that new Ireland is rushing forward much in the manner of new Italy. "Forty-nine new factories have been created within 24 months. . . . Fourteen thousand houses have been built or are building, and $7,500,000 has been expended to better housing conditions ... By the Land Act of 1923 very many farmers were enabled to purchase the land they had been working under favorable terms. Thus the last vestige of landlordism has been removed...
...Coach Mitchell has considerable respect for the prowess of the southerners with the bat is shown in his announcement that Barbee, Harvard's first string twirler who has lost but one game in ten starts, will be on the mound for the University team this afternoon. Barbee went through fourteen long albeit successful innings against Holy Cross Saturday and would, therefore, not ordinarily be expected to hurl today...
...Food for them was so plentiful that they even disdained the dead zebras we put out as bait, merely walking up and sniffing at the food we had provided. . . . Day after day, for weeks at a time we filmed them, getting them in groups and families of ten or fourteen at a time. Altogether we photographed 147 lions...
...soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a platoon of U. S. marines commanded by Capt. Richard Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain...
...total number of students registered in the School during the year was two hundred ninety, the largest enrollment to date. Two hundred sixty of these were from the United States, representing thirty-two states; and thirty were foreigners representing fourteen different countries. . . . There was a large increase in the number of postgraduate students over any previous registration...