Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Duma before the Revolution and now professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, declared that the whole system has been disorganized, that the Bolsheviki are engaged in making " robots " of the people, and that the exile of the intelligentia makes educational reconstruction difficult. Sixteen thousand members of this class have been deported, according to Sir Paul. The result is that it will be necessary first to build schools, and second to organize and train teachers. The middle class from which teachers would ordinarily come has been destroyed and the only ready supply...
...electric freight locomotives will weigh 360 tons, and their sixteen driving axles will develop a normal capacity of 4,000 horsepower, and a maximum of 5,000 for an hour. Their maximum speed will be 45 miles an hour...
Here is General Booth, The Congo, The Booker T. Washington Trilogy, Daniel?that inspires even professional audiences to give vent to as leonine roars of approbation as possible. Here Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, ("The Campaign of Eighteen Ninety-Six as Viewed at the Time by a Sixteen Year Old") with the most magnificent compliment ever paid to a Presidential candidate, " The one American poet who could sing outdoors." Here is The Chinese Nightingale (Mr. Lindsay's own favorite among his longer poems), and The Litany of the Heroes which he describes as a " rhymed Outline of History, still in process...
...Rovers are as American as The Saturday Evening Post - and yet they are neither Babbitts, beautiful, damned nor Gopher Prairie yokels. They are merely what the average American boy between ten and sixteen would like to be, and they do the things which that boy would like to do. The wandering Patagonian musing on the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge in the year 3,000 could reconstruct every external of our present life and civilization from this series of books, as well as most of our ideals. He would think our normal life a little more exciting than...
...Supreme Court adjourned for the Summer and will not again convene until October 1. Sixteen cases were left undecided and must await action until Fall. They include four on the alien land laws of California and Washington, three on the taxability of the " Massachusetts trusts," North Dakota's claim against Minnesota for flood damages on the Bois de Sioux River, and others. Among the cases to come up in the Autumn is also the Government's appeal for an injunction to prevent the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange from dealing in sugar futures...