Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourteen of the Graduate School awards consist of travelling fellowships, to provide for a year of study and travel in Europe, as follows...
Captain Charles Nungesser, famous French ace, fourteen times decorated for valor, is engaged to Miss Consuelo Hatmaker, of No. 270 Park Avenue, Manhattan...
...only two. In the others, the drastic laws have been repealed. Another sphere of operations shows better results. Seven states and a number of cities have established censorship for motion pictures. But even here, their future is not too bright. A referendum showed Massachusetts squarely against such censorship, and fourteen other States have voted against it in their legislatures...
...fundamental characteristic of a great reporter, I judge. The world, as it appears to him each morning, is a new world. Events come to him as great God-given phenomena at which he gazes not with the eyes of a visionary but with the naïveté of the fourteen-year-old child which represents the reading public. Add to this naïveté of Mr. Broun's a curiously gentle sympathy for mankind, and a thorough disrespect for snobbery, and you have the man. His opinion of a play is likely to be very near that of the average theatregoer...
What former President of the United States could have reduced all culture to five feet of shelf room by the mere authority of his name. Mr. Roosevelt's pigskin library has been forgotten for many years, and Mr. Wilson's fourteen pocket pointers have never yet been sold...