Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposals to their fellows or to their stenographers, business men of Brooklyn have evidently been troubled by stuttering. Under the supervision of the Chamber of Commerce, a sixteen-weeks course in public and private speaking has been instituted to enable the business leaders to become articulate...
...hopes that the development of oratorical excellence in Brooklyn, will find some reflection in business letters. Perhaps, after a few courses of sixteen weeks each some more original formula can be devised as an opening sentence than. "Yours of the fifth instant to hand. In reply will say"; and some concluding phrase discovered, more genuine if less hearty, than: "With best wishes...
...Sixteen countries received more returning emigrants from the U. S. than they sent as immigrants to this country. They include Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Lithuania, Yougslavia, Spain, Portugal, China, Japan...
Round and round the track for eight days roared the automobiles. Sixteen broke down, but Prince Carol was one of the seven that finished. So fast had been the race that the Rumanian judge "was unable to decide who had won." It was said that the Prince had a good chance of being declared the winner...
...series of eight essays approximates a connected study of what we should call a course. Such, for example, as "Was Magna Carta a reactionary fuedal document?" or "What was the effect of the French Revolution on English Politics and on the reform movement?" The essay should take some sixteen hours of preparation. It is possible to scamp the work a bit, but it is hard to believe that an Oxford tutor could be made to accept an essay taken bodily from the Encyclopedia Britanica, a thing which certainly has been done at Harvard. The pupil reads the essay aloud...