Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barely airborne, it lurched. Its right wingtip dropped, scraped the runway. The plane veered crazily, crashed through a hangar with a shattering roar, and burst into flame. Inside its crumpled fuselage, students (some of whose safety belts snapped) crawled dazedly amid bright fire, or lay still. Sixteen managed to tumble out into the arms of hangar crewmen...
...unprecedented dual yearbook was created by amalgamation of the '47 and '48 staffs in March 1947, since the two classes were almost unrecognizably intermingled during the war years. Sixteen hundred maroon-and-buff covered copies will be mailed as soon as the books are bound, Coombs said...
...Sixteen years ago, when Herb Shriner was a gangling Indiana schoolboy, radio's top comedians were Fred Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, and Jack Benny. Today, the aging comedians are still on top, but Herb Shriner, as gangling as ever at 30, is their newest competitor...
When Harvard met Yale last week, no less than 22 teams collided. On Friday, some 500 minor-league footballers from the two schools grunted & groaned. Harvard's freshmen plowed Yale under, 32-13, and the Harvard jayvees won, 27-6. Sixteen other teams in action were intramural squads from eight Yale colleges and eight Harvard houses...
Eleven out of sixteen dormitories and off-campus houses turned in 100 percent records with only six students refusing to contribute to the fund...