Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets anything else to match this. It is a crime against the gods of high romance for so matchless a string...
...pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals are using music in their tuberculosis wards, he said. "With proper care, diet, sanitation and music we can all live to be 150 years...
...record of the Debating Union is one of high mediocrity. In its three and one half years of existence, it has held fourteen meetings with attendances ranging from a minimum of forty to a usual audience of about sixty and an extraordinary maximum of four hundred brought out by the football debate last fall. It has thrived best on college subjects. The biggest and most ardent audiences were attracted by the topics of football and military training...
According to the valuation of the roads by the Interstate Commerce Commission the 1925 earnings are a yield of 5%; according to the reckoning of the railroads (by book value), 4.83%. Fourteen Class I railroads had net losses during the year, of which five are in the East, eight in the West, one in the South...
Among the fourteen speakers who will address the meeting are E. C. Johnson '03, H. H. Ripley Jr. '14 W. M. McKim '16, and H. C. MacDuffie '14. Among the other speakers will be D. C. Wilbur and V. E. Parmenter, Graduates of Dartmouth. Other names included in the list are H. E. Horn, import Manager of Lowney's Chocolates, R. B. Capon of Whittemore Bros., H. A. Sweetser, district manager of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and E. O. Hatch of the Carr Fastener...