Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile in 2.34 in road buggy. Saddle horse, a Kentucky thoroughbred, height 15 - 2, chestnut, weight about 1,000 lbs., fast runner and hurdler; has won two races. Two very promising young horses. These horses can be driven together now in three minutes. The youngest, "Fashion," is fully sixteen hands, and is a strong and powerful looking horse in every way, and is thoroughly broken and weighs about 1,100 pounds. His sister, 15 - 1, weight about 1,000. Both raised from Membrano stock. For particulars enquire of Galloupe Morton, Harvard Law School...
...March Century with its sixteen prose articles and ten poems besides four "Topics of the Time" and four "Open Letters," contains an unusually varied assortment of subjects and styles. The most interesting articles should have been the two on Paderewski, one "A Critical Study," by William Mason, and the other "A Biographical Sketch," by Fanny Morris Smith, but unfortunately the former is so technical in its vocabulary as to be almost unintelligable to one not familiar with musical slang, while the latter, though it contains most interesting facts, many of which have not before been in the possession...
...preachers and four professors have addressed the Thursday meetings; and the association has received a deputation from Yale and Wesleyan. Sixteen regular, eighteen Sunday, and ten special meetings have been held, at which the attendance has averaged 50, 30 and 22, respectively. Four Bible classes, with 45 members meet weekly. Six delegations, in which sixteen men have taken part, have been sent to neighboring associations to conduct meetings. The Harvard member of the State Deputation has visited five of the colleges and preparatory schools of the State. The work among the sailors was carried on during the fall, and will...
...important step has been made toward keeping a more accurate record of the membership. All those who are interested in the welfare of the association, and who desire to be considered members, are requested to sign the new membership book. The reading room of the association is supplied with sixteen daily, weekly and monthly periodicals; and is open during the day and evening to all members of the University...
...number of candidates, a very large portion of whom had absolutely no chance of becoming members of their crew as finally made up. Zeal was not lacking; it was simply physical inability that would not permit them to row on a crew that represents our freshmen. After much sifting sixteen men remain. They are not large men, but they are the kind that would or at least ought to make a good 'varsity crew if they were considerably larger. They are a wirey set of little fellows that are full of interest in the work and are determined...