Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty important first and early editions of German writers have been presented to the Harvard Library by Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears of Boston. These volumes include sixteen works by Schiller, eighteen by Goethe, and works by Lessing, Heine, Uhland and Burger, as well as many others. The Library now has but one of the editions of Faust published during Goethe's life, and a collection of about 20,000 titles of strictly German literature in the Library...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...
...Constant Wife. And what have the privations of monogamy to do with wifely constancy? queries W. Somerset Maugham in a play for children over sixteen. His heroine, Constance Middleton (Ethel Barrymore), observes her husband's liaisons with an indulgent smile, tacitly assumes the right to go and do likewise -and does. Her husband can take it or leave it. As the curtain falls, he takes it with a hard gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love...
...Sixteen men on the Freshman basketball squad survived the second cut which was made yesterday...
...result of compromise, the Navy's demand for an additional budgetary outlay of 122,400,000 yen ($60,000,000) was clipped, and a five-year building program substituted during which the following ships will glide down the ways: four 10,000-ton cruisers; sixteen 1,700-ton destroyers, one 2,000-ton submarine; four 1,700-ton submarines; and three river gunboats...