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Word: fourteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School has just completed a transaction with the University Library by which a collection of over 300 English legal documents of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries gathered by F.A. Crisp, F.S.A., of London, have become the property of the Law School Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 6/6/1928 | See Source »

...drive went straight down the course. So did Perkins's. But Perkins won the first hole and was never down. Several holes were halved, as when Mr. Wethered drove onto a railroad track and Perkins missed a one-yard putt, but in the afternoon on the fourteenth hole it was Mr. Wethered who missed the yard putt, giving Perkins the hole, the match, and the amateur championship. All the U. S. players had been put out in the early rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Prestwick | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Tonight at 9 o'clock members of the class of 1931 will gather in smith Halls to participate in the fourteenth annual Jubilee. For six hours Freshmen and their lady guests will enjoy dancing to the strains of two orchestras and entertainment from a musical comedy now playing in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED BOOK APPEARS ON EVE OF JUBILEE | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

...passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed by 16 to 20 rows of stitching, each stitch about one-fourteenth of an inch long. Weaving ("under and over") has been dispensed with, which means less capital, fewer workers, big savings. All-wool unfinished broadcloth and blankets have been made and according to optimistic reports cannot be differentiated from their loom-woven relatives. The finer fabrics, requiring more rows of shorter stitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases to wonder at the nervousness of men in public life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASK THEM ANOTHER | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

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