Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12 would welcome intellectuals, for the House had no one among last year's Junior Eight nor this fall's Senior Sixteen in Phi Beta Kappa. Members of the House are divided as to the tutorial staff--some complain that the tutors are snobbish and aloof, while others find them provocative conversationalists...
...Sixteen states elect some or all of their delegates in primaries. In only two (Minnesota, Ohio) does the ballot clearly show which presidential candidate each prospective delegate favors. In others, the voter either sees no indication on the ballot or is confronted with some more or less vague bit of prose. In Oregon, where the candidate for delegate may have a twelve-word slogan after his name on the ballot, one 1948 aspirant offered the voter this guidance: "You may have full confidence I will do my duty as delegate...
...Freedom & Democrorsia." Hell night's parade went on. A Puerto Rican seaman brought from jail with possible appendicitis, an ex-coal miner with chronic pulmonary fibrosis, a young boy superficially but painfully hurt in an auto crash. Sixteen babies were born, one by Caesarian...
...selection was admirable, being culled from the sixteen adaptations of his work which Dickens used himself on his tours. It included humor and tragedy, complete stories and incidents, utter-affectation and sincere emotion. No less varied was the reader's enunciation. He varied his tone, not in an offensively obvious manner, but in a subtle way which dispersed all tedium from the more than two hours of essentially similar narrative...
...Last Sunday, however, Dorow was named top performer in a North-South "Senior Bowl" game, with competition from Hank Lauricella and Babe Parilli. The only thing Dorow didn't attempt to do in the East-West contest was punt. Kazmaier got off one hell of a boot that carried sixteen yards...