Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen courses to be omitted are Naval Sciences 1, 2, 4, and 5; Anthropology 33, Geography 27a, History 48, Economics 12b and 63b, Chemistry 21b, English 120d, 240a, and 270b, Government 115 and 127, and Mineralogy...
Having started yesterday with sixteen students, it will run until October 12. The course is based upon research developments of the last few years...
...Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history...
...hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first job of the ten Army nurses stationed at the Churchill base was to deliver an Indian baby who was promptly nicknamed "G.I. Joe." The soldiers had time to learn how to harpoon whales from canoes. Sixteen married Canadian girls...
Modern Times. In Dayton, business-college authorities decided to junk the tried-&-true practice sentence, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back," substitute "A quick movement of the enemy would jeopardize sixteen gun boats...