Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football machines of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will require many repairs before going through another season. The championship Yale team loses 18 letter-men by graduation. Sixteen Harvard men have made their last gridiron appearance, and Princeton, faring slightly better, will have to replace 13 departing players. All three colleges, however, have strong foundations to build upon. The Crimson can count upon nine letter men returning, seven of whom may be classed as regulars. Ten Yale men will be back in college, and Princeton will have 14 to pick from...
...chief merits of Goldoni are an inexhaustible fertility of invention--in one year he announced and executed a program of sixteen comedies--and an unfailing sprightliness in the dialogue...
...with the impossibility of including in the volume excerpts from the moving pictures themselves, as Mantle includes selections from the written drama, Sherwood overcomes the obstacle by giving reviews of the different films, with the plots, casts of characters, and methods of production. In this manner he has taken sixteen representative photoplays of the season 1922-1923, which he considers the best of the field. It is, of course, the prerogative of anyone to quarrel with the choice of matter included in an anthology; but whether Sherwood's choice of the best movies meets with everyone's approval...
...Sixteen years ago a Socialist newspaper, The Call, was brought forth in Manhattan. It never flourished, but it managed to survive-for 16 years-on money contributions. It is estimated that nearly $1,000,000 was used to sustain its life by artificial respiration. On Oct. 1 of this year it changed hands. Several unions, notably a union of clothing workers, bought the paper. The pinko-progressive press hailed the change as an epoch in the annals of Labor and Journalism. But it seems that Labor is even less competent as a journalist than Socialism. The paper came too near...
...deliberately constructed to embody funds of Knowledge", so that "every letter had a hidden meaning, and words in current use today retain the meaning which the group of letters gave." And accepting the tradition which exists in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt of an ancient alphabet of sixteen letters the author seeks to prove that the well-known nursery catch, "Ena dena, dina, do, catch a nigger by the toe, etc.," is this lost alphabet, preserved by generations of children, who repeated it almost subconsciously, perfectly oblivious to the "depth of knowledge buried in the apparently meaningless words...