Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to be a holiday, the I. W. W. gang was ordered to unload some coal. When they refused point blank to work while the other prisoners were enjoying a moving picture they were placed in isolation, put on bread and water, and strung up by the hands for fourteen days for eight hours a day. On the eight day they were beaten with baseball bats by some prisoners who had been given long sentences for murder and other crimes, and who beat the men with the hope of getting a commutation or a parole. One of these...
Meantime the Postal Service continues to grow. Back in the days of the stage coach and "real romance" a couple of mail sacks would bring a week's delivery to Chicago or Louisville. Today a million and a half letters are mailed every hour and the government sells fourteen billion stamps a year...
Springfield College has played only three teams, none of which have been met by the Crimson men. Le Bleu is outstanding and will probably shoot the fouls. In a game with Williston Seminary he succeeded in scoring on ten out of fourteen free tries...
...against the M. I. T. sextet, the University hockey team yesterday afternoon prepared for tomorrow evening's contest with the Engineers at the Arena. Captain Owen and Joseph Larocque Jr. '23, regular center on the University sextet, were the only members of the squad, which has been cut to fourteen men, who did not report yesterday. Owen is suffering from a slight cold, which will not, however, keep him out of tomorrow's contest. Larocque, whose cold is somewhat worse, will probably be out until Saturday...
...prepared are not above the capacity of "any youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other two. And the report which he quotes, also, refers only to scholarship plus a negative quality called...