Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lath. On each side of the barrier 23 kernels of corn were planted, and the pan was spun again to select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow no more . . . and it grew no more. The top of it darkened and withered...
...destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian ship: 49°3O min. north, 49°20 min. west. Sixteen hours after Admiral Burke set the operation in motion, Hale had sighted Novorossisk, raised signal flags: HEAVE
...University's decision to open another cooperative house for commuters is a commendable expedient. The new residence will offer sixteen places for commuting students; together with quarters in the cooperative residence concerted last year and new places in Wiggles worth, 77 commuters will be enabled to participate more in University living...
Meanwhile, sixteen of the clubs look reasonably healthy for the coming year. Only Prospect, the co-operative club that figured so prominently in last year's controversy, seems destined to collapse. It again held an open Bicker, allowing anyone who was interested to sign up, and attracted only four sophomores; it is extremely doubtful that it can survive with so small a sophomore "section." Prospect's difficulty is that its philosophy of non-selectivity is incompatible6LODGE MEMBERS chat during dinner hour. While most sophomores ate hurriedly and thought of nothing but Bicker last week, men in Wilson seemed calm...
...note in the optimistic atmosphere Saturday night was the uncertain future of Prospect Club. This cooperative organization, which accepted any sophomore who would sign its book, attracted only four sophomores, and club representatives were not sure that it could stay in business next fall. New enrollment in the other sixteen clubs ranged from 20 in Elm to 79 in Terrace...