Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
Accent on Accents: There are too many Phi Beta Kappa members in government service, Senator Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, told newspaper executives in Chicago. "I shudder to think what the boys with the Harvard accents have cost the country in the last sixteen years," Mundt said, shuddering. Newsweek, October...
...Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
Relative Chastity. Guy's doting mother could find no fault with her good-looking son. In her old age she was to recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
While the Dunces like to consider themselves an influential phase of Dunster House activity, yet, short of stuffing the ballot box, it is doubtful if our sixteen harmonizers could "choose seven for House Committee" as Tuesdays CRIMSON announced. It is true that the Dunces admit to membership only Dunster House men, but the converse of the axiom is not true. Let the CRIMSON take warning. There have been disgruntled rumblings from the electorate ever the error. Such phrases as "defamation of character," "libel," and "it wasn't the beer, it was the potato chips" have been heard since. John...