Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This wireless amateur came into being about twelve or fourteen years ago. He seemed to be one of the outgrowths of fooling with amateur wire telegraph instruments. A great many boys in years past became bitten with the telegraph bug and built little telegraph systems and communicated with each other in the next house or across the street. When Mr. Marconi began to achieve results with his wireless signals the most determined of these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities...
...basketball team that faces Yale at New Haven tonight has a heavy burden to carry. After a lapse of fourteen years we are resuming, more or less as novices, a game that has been played at Yale much more regularly, and is recognized at many other colleges on a par with the major sports. The players must not only uphold Harvard's athletic prowess over an old rival; they have the added tasks of justifying their existence as a minor sport and of arousing the interest and support--somewhat lacking now--which will be the basis for future successful teams...
...accomplished. This is perhaps the most important treaty; in addition, that limiting the use of submarines as commerce destroyers, the Four-power Pacific Treaty, the General Far Eastern agreement, the Chinese Tariff Pact, and the Shantung Treaty, all go far towards eliminating causes of friction and future war. Fourteen resolutions, ten declarations of national policy, and two treaties yet to be ratified complete the list of accomplishments...
...first play of the game, and although the visitors tied the score early in the contest, they never were able to forge ahead. The University captain played a stellar game at right forward, tallying six baskets from the floor and running up a total of eleven points out of fourteen free tries from the foul line. Excellent long shooting by Fowler and Smith, the Clark right forward and center, featured the offensive play of the Worcester team but, by the second half, the Crimson backfield solved their opponents' attack and held them to three baskets...
...local encyclopedia, the University Catalogue, devotes fourteen pages to the subject of Prizes. Aside from the thousands of dollars awarded annually in the form of scholarships or financial Aids, this large number of prizes is given solely as reward for specific achievements in a scholarly or literary field. These honors may be won by every imaginable form of intellectual activity: there are two for music, two for poetry, several for debating and oratory, several for scholarship in specified subjects, and many for essays, theses, or dissertations on any topic from political science to literature. The most famous and most valued...