Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixteen Yale alumni were prohibited from buying tickets for Yale football games because they did not use the seats which they had contracted to occupy at Yale-Harvard game last fall...
...plane, equipped with Siemens-Halske motor. She sought and gained something that has no real aeronautical importance-the woman's endurance record. Her time aloft alone was 8 hrs. 6 min. 37 sec., better than Lady Sophie Heath's 77-hr, record made earlier this year. Sixteen years ago, when planes were a novel and dangerous experiment, Ruth Law stayed up six hours. Neither the National Aeronautic Association or the Federation Aeronautique Internationale pays attention to such flights made by women as women. The recognized world endurance record is 65½ hours...
...Sixteen of the younger, unmarried teachers live in the hall, not at all as proctors, but rather as students in more advanced lines of work. These men apply for rooms just as the incipient doctors do; they eat and play and study with the other members of the "house...
...really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according to the state of the river. Only by air could Mr. & Mrs. Hoover drop briefly in on President Mendez-and no U. S. President or President-Elect since Theodore Roosevelt has made bold to enter an airplane...
...Shih, whose contribution to the symposium, is among the very best of the sixteen contributions, disclaims the spirituality of the Orient, often sweepingly exhibited as an ideal of a more untrammeled civilization, and asks "What spirituality is there in a civilization that tolerates such a terrible form of human slavery as the ricksha Coolie...