Word: sixteener
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Chosen from among sixteen competitors, Bingham will run the Freshman practices for the rest of the season and will manage the Yale game a week from Saturday at New Haven. As a final reward for winning the competition Bingham will received his class numerals...
Next year all sixteen will start off again on equal terms trying for the position of Varsity manager to be chosen at the end of the 1941 season...
...there is one towering issue which threatens to undermine national morale and unity in a time of crisis--the Thanksgiving Day question. On November 21 the inhabitants of 32 states will sit down to turkey dinners in obedience to the President's proclamation. Sixteen states, the ill-fed third of the nation (and that means all of New England) will dine simply that day on roast duck and truffles, and will celebrate Thanksgiving a week later...
...Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...
...pivotal Hudson County with its whopping vote, Hague has elected five Governors, for years has euchred the Republican majority in the Legislature, has made "Hagueism" the dominating influence in the State. Both times Franklin Roosevelt ran for the Presidency, Hague delivered New Jersey's 16 electoral votes. Sixteen electoral votes, to the Republicans, were a lot of potatoes last week...