Word: sixteener
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Hitherto any students wishing to qualify for the Bachelor's degree in three years have been asked, in addition to other requirements, to complete a total of sixteen courses in order to compensate for the loss of the fourth year of tutorial work...
...Sixteen members of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union and approximately six members of the Waitresses' Union lost their jobs in Harvard kitchens and dining halls and also forfeited union membership yesterday...
...clapper-claws his idol, Georgia's Senator Walter George), is not given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went off in a small spray of words like "staggering . . . stupendous . . . unrivaled since the dawn of creation." Carefully he added: "I am in some doubt whether the half has been told...
...that she is a full half of the show, with the energetic and appealing personality and the topnotch voice necessary to make the vivacious, French-Canadian Rose Marie La Flamme live on the stage. Her rendition of the "Indian Love Call" would have brought every brave from sixteen to sixty in the whole Five Nations to lay venison and beads at her feet. Singing opposite her in the role of Jim Kenyon, Alexander Grey is a somewhat lesser figure, but quite good enough in his own right. The dances of Grace Poggi as the sensuous young half-breed girl leave...
These events did not end the danger of serious labor trouble, but they postponed and mitigated it. The Ford strike was still unsettled. C.I.O. electrical workers struck and closed the Bayway, N.J. plant of Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp. over issues of a closed shop, vacations, pay. Sixteen smaller defense plants were still struck...