Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even though the narrow vote cannot be said to reflect the complacency that evidently pervaded the committee action, neither does it reflect partisan bias. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Democrat, Steck, while nine Democrats sought to keep Brookhart in the Senate. If political preference did play a part, it was not along party lines...
...teachers. Less attention has been paid to the far-reaching effects of primary and intermediate education. President Angell refers to the fact that the American boy, as compared with his British and Continental cousin, somewhere loses about two years. The graduate of a French lycee at the age of sixteen years, for example, is in scholastic attainment about two years ahead of American youth of the same age. Indirectly this is in part the effect of conditions that no one would wish to see duplicated in America, such as military service, economic pressure, and extreme standardization of instruction. There...
...five Years of American Prosperity", is a paean of industrial progress. For the American may vaunt that the wealth of his country, 89 billions of dollars in 1900, has more than trebled since. Some Croesus power has magically turned a five billion dollar debt into a present credit of sixteen billions. The industrial majesty thus won sweeps swiftly down a prolific path of production, invention, and copious remodeling. New attachments, parts, and styles are flooding the twentieth century triumphs, the automobile, the aeroplane the radio, the motion picture...
Nine families could not stomach the exotic roast. Sixteen families reported having enjoyed their meal to the utmost. The Government was elated. "That was a tough old bull," said officials. "All would have relished tender calf meat." Experiments continued upon...
CHIMNEY CORNER STORIES-Veronica S. Hutchinson-Minton, Balch ($2.50). Sixteen well wrought little tales retold to suit those who still delight in beef juice and junket. Cleverly illustrated...