Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourteen nations have not yet acknowledged receipt of the State Department's communication. (Great Britain, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Hungary, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg...
William Lambert Richardson: Fourteen years Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, his work in the Lying-in Hospital made an epoch in the practice of Obstetrics...
...president of the board of aldermen raised his left hand until it was fourteen when his wife convinced him that it is better to choose a college early than to try to make sense out of Aldous Huxley so they married and raised children who raised hell ten feet toward heaven by gilding the front stairs of the devil's bathing apartment so that he slipped on the wet paint--and it is really not often that the devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without...
Illiteracy figures as quoted in the current "World's Work" credit Germany with the lowest proportion of illiterates in her population with the figure of five hundredths of one percent. Switzerland, Great Britain, United States, and France follow in order, the last named housing a population fourteen percent illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine...
...Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when the book is read, a grand walk with stick a-flourishing and mind a-scurrying down the broad highway of youth and of romance, the highway scorned by authorities on comparative literature, by pedants and by profiteers...