Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court filed in, all wearing black satin skull caps, except Justice McReynolds, whose bald pate, unprotected, bore the chilly breeze. Sixteen years before, at that time and place, a heavy blizzard was blowing; slush was ankle deep. On that occasion, Chief Justice Taft, now about to administer the oath of Office to the President, had taken that same oath himself, but in the Senate Chamber. The Cabinet, including Mr. Hughes, retired, appeared in their silk hats. The new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, was with them; in the fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove...
...think." Possibly it does, but perhaps it rather relieves his mind of confusion and illusion, replacing these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...Intelligence" must be used in a sense specific and universally understood, before any theory about it can even approach validity or importance. But meanwhile, this latest hypothesis may be useful in reminding teachers of children to save their major burden of abstractions for shoulders (presumably sixteen-year-old shoulders) that are quite ready to bear them; to keep their stock of complicated facts for hands that are skilled to sort them. By such a course, many a prodigy may be saved from himself...
That the University Business School is a definite factor in the War Department's preparedness program is shown by the fact that sixteen officers of the Army are now stationed there for training. These officers are representatives of every supply department in the Army and have been detailed to the Business School in order to study the principals of modern commerce and industry...
...Sixteen special Pullman cars, 26 enormous baggage cars. (Page 13, column...