Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson was also badly hurt by graduations, however, losing sixteen lettermen from last year's squad. "The teams probably won't play first rate lacrosse," Munro said, "but it should be a very interesting match...
...Sixteen straight days of drizzle have postponed three Red Sox games so far this season, one on April 14 at Baltimore, and a double header on Patriot's Day, April 19, with the Washington Senators. The annual Boston Marathon ran that day, and despite the puddles along the route, Hideo Hamamura of Japan set a record for the event...
...sixteen works of sculpture shown at the Paul Schuster Gallery, Miguel Gusils tries his hand at a variety of materials: bronze, steel, iron, marble and terra cotta; as well as a number of styles. No. 1 "Torso" is a realistic treatment of the traditional nude. Instead of idealizing the body Gusils prefers to make it very fleshy and animal like. Irregular proportions and a relaxed posture help accomplish this. The same subject is teated in increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary...
Although the hall had only sixteen rooms, it somehow managed to house two hundred and forty men during the Revolution when a Provincial Congress commandeered Harvard dormitories. Among the Revolutionaries were Samuel and Ebenezer. Hall, who used the building as the headquarters of the "New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette." This short-lived publication, according to a contemporary, emitted "streams of intelligence and those patriotic songs and tracts which so pre-eminently animated the defenders of American liberty." All the enthusiasm aroused by rebellion must have subverted the Puritan spirit of Stoughton, for the foundations soon began to crumble...
...Sixteen months ago the President of the U.S. left a Big Three conference in Bermuda and flew to New York, where he made a memorable promise to the United Nations Assembly: "The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic riddle-to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life." To back up his words, Dwight Eisenhower made a concrete offer of nuclear materials to an international agency designed to develop peaceful uses of the atom...