Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourteen new black jerseys were given out at the Locker Building today to five halfbacks, five quarterbacks, two ends and two line men who had survived Coach Fisher's first cut of the University squad on September 21. Fifty-two men now remain, but of these, Braden, Doherty, and Hammond are as yet ineligible to play. There are therefore less than fifty men available for the opening game with Rhode Island State next Saturday...
Only forty-eight men reported to Coach Farrell for cross-country practice, thirty-four for the University and fourteen for the Freshman team. As soon as things begin to settle down however, Coach Farrell expects to see more men out. For a week the squads will work out at Soldier's Field, and will then transfer to the Belmont courses, where the University squad will run over its usual six-mile and the Freshman over a three mile course. The workouts for the next week will be light...
Down, back of the world, a new prophet has arisen. Fourteen million Moslems is the number of faithful in Eastern Russia, the Caucasus and Tashkent. They-or at any rate their so-called representatives-discovered the prophet, and, assembling at Ufa, capital of the Bashkir Republic, they elected him mufti. The name of the now sacred gentleman is Kiraeddin Ben Fakreddin. The conclave at Ufa is reported as having initiated a far-reaching program for the unification of Islam. Similar reports have come be- fore from greater centers than Ufa, and in connection with more noted men than Fakreddin...
...Gates, Russell C. Leffingwell. The firm holds two " seats " or memberships in the New York Stock Exchange, which stand in the names of J. P. Morgan and his son, Junius S. Morgan, Jr. The number of Morgan partners has always been elastic, and has recently varied from nine to fourteen, so that it cannot be said that Mr. Leffingwell is filling a " vacancy " there...
Christopher Morley, famed colyumist: "Ten sonnets, fourteen lines each, I wrote, and read before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. My text? 'The herb, Lunaria, ceremoniously gathered at set times, laid upon any lock it makes it flie open...