Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Waiters' crew went out once and obtained the peak of condition in the single afternoon workout. The crew has put the stroke up to fourteen under the able pace setting of Rainbow, at stroke, and look forward to an easy victory Thursday, David Shaw '29, 200-pound coxswain on the waiters crew is driving his men in a fabulous fashion, for as much as 200 yards at a time...
...Grand Salon of the Hotel George V fourteen men blinked uneasily behind a long green table in the blinding rays of sunlamps and arc lights. Mr. Young, chairman and presiding genius of the conference, sat in the middle, on his right Emile Moreau, Governor of the Bank of France, on his left Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Boston Lawyer Thomas N. Perkins. On the green cloth in front of Chairman Young were two white blocks of foolscap, two and a half inches thick, copies in French and English of the famed agreement, neatly prepared by Sir Josiah Stamp, head...
...Fourteen U. S. universities must now find space to hang 100 pictures apiece. The French donors frankly admit a shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered...
...bedraggled group of Gastonia, N. C., strikers appeared in Washington to tell their grievances. They were snubbed by the National Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation...
...When I was fourteen," Arielle resumed, "My good aunt in Chicago sent...