Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full glory of ancient pomp Caliph Abdul Medjid crossed the Bosporus in a fourteen-oared caïque painted with a frieze of flowers and arabesques, its carved gilt prow sur- mounted by a silver image of a strange bird. The occasion was the first Selamlik-official service at a mosque-held in Scutari (opposite Constantinople) by the Caliph...
...Orleans Times-Picayune purchased 5,000 Bibles and in fourteen days disposed of them to its readers at 98 cents each...
Hemenway, Gymnasium, with a total capacity, including standing room, of eight hundred, has rarely, if ever, had more than a quarter of that number for any game this year. Despite this lack of encouragement, however, the team has come through a successful season, winning fourteen games and losing four. The game tonight against Yale, the Intercollegiate League champion, will serve admirably to supply the needed "taste"; it remains for the undergraduates to cultivate...
Through the kindness of several members of the Faculty, fourteen articles are being written to serve as a guide in selecting fields of concentration. Each of the important departments will be carefully covered. The writers are representative men, chosen for their knowledge of their subjects and because they are well-known to Freshmen. They will deal unofficially with the problems which face men in the choice of their fields, and each will explain what the student may expect who elects the writer's particular subject...
...succeeds in winning the conversational battle, she will be credited with a moral victory, at least, and she will disprove the theory of the new scientist. But conversation, though important, is not the chief part of the evening. There will stand before every couple the recently made fourteen and a half hour record for continuous dancing, and when the dining tables are brought out in the morning, the waiters should not be surprised to see the end of a record breaking achievement. But for the most part, when the last dance is danced, each one on the wining team will...