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Word: fourteeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss broke a fourteen game winning streak against Dartmouth, and put the team in bad shape for the showdown with Cornell on Saturday. The Crimson must break a three-game losing streak up at Cornell in order to win the Ivy League...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Icemen Drop Third Straight to Indians, 4-3 | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

...praise yesterday for several Crimson wrestlers. In particular. Dan Blakinger (118) defeated Springfield's Bob Meyer, who had only lost to Penn State in fourteen bouts, 3-1. Captain Colin Mangrum (158) returned to action for the first time in two months and easily decisioned Ed Hayes...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Springfield Ties Harvard Wrestlers | 2/9/1972 | See Source »

...hospital's acute section and gets the patient accustomed once more to caring for himself. In a VA hospital, with its relatively aged clientele, the program also reduces the number of patients who grow so used to the invalid's routine that they prefer it. Fourteen VA hospitals now use the system; private hospitals are beginning to follow suit, and not only for the elderly. Besides those nearly ready to go home, other types of patients are considered eligible, including those admitted for presurgical testing, businessmen undergoing executive physicals, certain psychiatric patients and those undergoing treatment for alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halfway Wards | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Houton, a 42-year-old widow, makes $115 a week as a housekeeper at City Hall, and brings home $85. Fourteen per cent of this take-home pay ($619) goes to property taxes, while McGovern claims that persons in Milton, Lexington and Concord pay only two per cent of this figure and get better schools...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Govern Woos Middle America in Dorchester | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

Gertrud, which will be shown tonight as the final film in a series of Dreyer's work, is the director's last film. It culminates the style Dreyer developed in a career that spanned nearly the whole development of film technique (1919-1964) yet produced only fourteen feature-length films. Until Dreyer was honored in 1952 with the Danish government's award to its important filmmakers--the lease of a Copenhagen cinema--he suffered from a chronic lack of financing. He was apparently never able to get sufficient funds for several projects that he dreamed of--such as a production...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: The Last Link in a Chain of Dreams | 1/6/1972 | See Source »

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