Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean a macadam highway within the next decade, of course, and anyone who has ever had more than a passing acquaintance with tractors is unlikely to choose them for pleasure-driving. Supply stations have been established for the first six hundred miles, but after that everything must be carried. Fourteen hundred miles, as the illustrious Governor of North Carolina might remark with justice, is a long way between drinks...
...tendency to take Coue more seriously--perhaps for the reason that he is famous but largely because the facts about him have become known. He was born of poor parents, worked his way through school and college, taking three degrees in the process; kept a drug store for fourteen years; and finally, through sheer hard work and force of character, made a career for himself hardly the story of an ignorant quack, or the ordinary doctor...
...with flint and steel because the matches are in the next room. The increase in participants in athletics is undoubtedly desirable but it is equally possible under the present system. In 1876 there were constant appeals for more candidates for crew because a winning eight was impossible with only fourteen candidates. Last spring crew drew over a hundred and fifty upper classmen: and the other major sports vary from fifty upward. The trouble is not with them for they care for their share already...
...suggestion such as this sounds much more startling to men in the University than to others, for in fourteen colleges, including Princeton and Williams, courses of much the same type have already been given and proved satisfactory. The Association is basing its report rather on experimental cases than on a novel suggestion of its own, and it is hoping to make easier a difficult step in each student's progress--the transition from preparatory school to college. It is bearing in mind the case of the student who passed his entrance examinations with honor marks, and then received four...
...Saturday Review" would limit the admission of Americans to Oxford. Unfortunately, his is not a solitary opinion. "I would welcome", says a Senior Tutor at Exeter College, Oxford in the "Nineteenth Century", "as freshmen at my College rather two English secondary school boys than four Colonials or fourteen Americans. . . ." Review" asks of a defender of the Americans, "His it ever occurred to his that with the control over the Union, their influence over a section of the Press and their secondary in the social clubs, the Americans will soon assimilate Oxford?' while another remarks that "Instead of a culture peculiarly...