Word: sixteen
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...Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped out in the crash, but all told the Fund gave away more than twice the original $900,000 principal...
Whitmore, who assumed active management of the restaurant this year, is working in conjunction with Wentworth L. Hayes, better known to local gourmets as the steward of the Adams House kitchen. Although a Swedish woman has been in charge of the cooking for some sixteen years now, all food is prepared in the strictest New England tradition...
Hitherto any students wishing to qualify for the Bachelor's degree in three years have been asked, in addition to other requirements, to complete a total of sixteen courses in order to compensate for the loss of the fourth year of tutorial work...
...Sixteen members of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union and approximately six members of the Waitresses' Union lost their jobs in Harvard kitchens and dining halls and also forfeited union membership yesterday...
...clapper-claws his idol, Georgia's Senator Walter George), is not given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went off in a small spray of words like "staggering . . . stupendous . . . unrivaled since the dawn of creation." Carefully he added: "I am in some doubt whether the half has been told...