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Word: sixteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixteen hundred 'Cliffe alumnae are expected to attend the Sanders ceremonies, which are part of a two-day celebration of the college's 75th anniversary. Other events, planned to give alumnae a re-introduction to Radcliffe, include exhibitions, tours, and a Radcliffe Choral Society Harvard Glee Club concert tonight...

Author: By Carlota G. Shipman, | Title: Radcliffe Will Honor Eight At 75th Year Ceremonies | 12/3/1954 | See Source »

...lack of any better adjective, "Pearl" is a tender story. Cynthia Rich has captured the speech of young and old with remarkable insight. An old nurse says, "I can hardly expect you to believe this, but until I was sixteen, I had hair just like Miss Pearl's. Yellow hair right down my back, and as fine . . ." In this piece touch is the contact with external force and beauty: the downiness of a dead bird's feathers, a young girl's long blonde hair, warm sunlight...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Advocate | 11/19/1954 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa Chapter last night announced the selection of the Senior Sixteen for the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Adams House Students Lead Newly Elected Senior Sixteen List | 11/10/1954 | See Source »

Under the Phi Beta Kappa election system, the Senior Sixteen is appointed by the Junior Eight. The combination of the Eight and the Sixteen will then elect a Junior Eight from 1956 and this group will appoint the final 70 to 80 members from the senior class in the spring term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Adams House Students Lead Newly Elected Senior Sixteen List | 11/10/1954 | See Source »

...these groups have divided sharply over some of the most important issues affecting voting, from entry into World War II, through intensity of anti-Communism, to, most recently, McCarthyism. In general, the Catholic nationalities respond one way toward these issue, the Jews and Negroes the other. For the past sixteen years, it has been a fact in New York politics that when Jews and Negroes go into the Democratic column, Catholics get out. And vice-versa...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Campaign: I | 10/26/1954 | See Source »

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