Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writers looked at this immortal creature scampering about in and out of bunkers, laying approaches dead to the pin and holing 15-foot putts. "The grand old lady of golf," they cried, with customary rudeness. Mr.s. Fox, not in the least embarrassed, went on playing her steady, irreproachable game. Sixteen years ago she became a grandmother. "Afternoon naps?" she said. "None of it for me." In 1923, when she was 62, Mrs. Fox played in the Belleair Heights, Fla., tournament. In the finals she had a medal score of 77 which beat famed Glenna Collett, her opponent...
...practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through a stage set for a Greek play. . . . The events: Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck of the U. S., 52 ft., 11/16 in., new world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland...
...Sixteen years ago Ellen Terry saw a farmhouse in Kent and asked her daughter to buy it for her. Since then she had lived there, coming to London for first nights. Two years ago she broke her arm and stopped coming up to London...
...Sixteen years of experimentation at the Rockefeller Institute substantiate this theory. Early in 1912 Dr. Murphy and his colleague Dr. Francis Peyton Rous produced tumors in young healthy chickens. From these tumors they made extracts; inoculated more healthy chicks; produced more tumors. Always the new tumor had all the characteristics of the tumor from which the extract was prepared. Extract from one species would grow only in the same, or occasionally in a closely related, species. This seemed scarcely the work of a microbe; much more closely did it resemble the activity of a ferment or enzyme like the bacteriophage...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...