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...allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot : they amount to Fourteen: O man, place not thy confidence in this present world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unaccustomed As I Am | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Kirkland House literally ran away with top honors in the Cross Country race yesterday. Flooding the field with fourteen entries, Kirkland outpointed second place Lowell by 17 points. Eliot managed to place last, entering one runner who didn't finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Fourteen study areas, each equipped for one subject, such as a foreign language, with individual study booths and teaching machines for self-testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trumped-Up School | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Wednesday and Friday Professor Ernest May will lecture on the United States and the Spanish-American War--in his view the seminal period of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. On subsequent M. W. F.'s May examines aspects of that policy: from big sticks to containment, from fourteen points to an alianaza para el progresso...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shopping Around: M.W.F. | 9/25/1961 | See Source »

...seemed well. Separating smoothly from its first stage, the second-stage rocket Agena, with the Ranger still attached, swung into a 100-mile-high parking orbit, coasted with its engine dead. Fourteen minutes after launch, the Agena's engine reignited on schedule to boost its Ranger payload on the long route into space. Then something went wrong. Instead of burning for the scheduled 90 seconds, which would have increased Ranger's speed from 17,400 m.p.h. to the necessary 23,800 m.p.h., Agena cut out too soon. Disconnected below maximum velocity, Ranger coasted up to a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Some Solace | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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