Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday afternoon the Freshman baseball team battled its way to a 4 to 3 victory over the Holy Cross first year men in a fourteen inning game, Allen making the winning run for the Crimson in a single by McGlone...
...girl about fourteen years old, daughter of the German professor at the University of Missouri, is walking one Spring day in the country outside the college town of Columbia. She approaches a railroad bridgehead. A Negro accosts her. He touches her. A car passes. He jumps back. The girl runs safely home to her parents...
Columbia's budget for 1923-1924 is $8,628,203, an amount which, at 5%, represents an investment of $172,500,000. There are only fourteen universities in the United States with endowments larger than Columbia's current annual expenditures...
...Cincinnati fourteen merchants were invited to a dinner by a commission merchant. When they assembled they discovered that their host was not the man from whom the invitation came-but another man who had disappeared owing them money 20 years ago. He made them a speech and then handed each an envelope containing principal and interest. In East Orange, N. J., license to drive an automobile was refused a man because he was 80 years...
...avalanche of bombs. Then south from Culebra came the Black fleet, driving the Blue fleet before it down the Pacific Coast. Panama Bay was swept of mines and the Blacks proceeded to the bombardment. Laying down a smoke screen, the Black fleet battered the land batteries with its fourteen-inch guns from a range of 30,000 yards-5,000 yards beyond the range of the forts. Then, drawing closer, it destroyed the Miraflores locks with its longest range guns, while 82 fourteen-inch guns concentrated on the forts. The destruction was complete. The Canal lay useless...