Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruggers reached pay dirt only once, with Tiger Smith taking the scoring honors. But in the second half the Crimson offense began rolling with Phil Strong, George Ditz, and Marsh Holleb each collecting three points. Conversions by Dave Colwell after the first and last tally brought the total to sixteen. Although the Boston Club seriously threatened several times in both periods, they were unable to cross the final stripe...
...Sixteen days after World War I began in 1914, Samuel Harden Church was called the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation (for denouncing Germany's "murder of civilization"). Previously he had worked his way up from messenger boy to vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, had long been doing good with Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie's money. He has crusaded for monetary inflation, against Prohibition, for President Roosevelt...
...skillful sailing of Roger Wilcox '42, the Harvard dinghy team made the best showing of the year, when it ended up fourth in the final standing out of sixteen colleges competing for the Morss Bowl in the Basin Saturday and Sunday. Princeton took top honors with an aggregate total of 362 points...
...hope you have lost your good looks; for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No: give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins. . . . Then you shall see me come out strong." So wrote, not perverse Jonathan Swift to his 18th-Century Stella, but moonstruck, middle-aged George Bernard Shaw to the lovely Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Year after year, in a stream extending from the '90s till long after the war, the most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love...
...featureStar Dust, with sixteen year old Linda Darnell, differs only in that it is not in technicolor...