Word: sixteener
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...Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology started a summer course for key industrialists on new developments in defense methods, imported sixteen of the nation's best engineers and scientists as instructors...
...Sixteen years ago a handsome young Episcopal rector of Christ Church, Macon, Ga., heard that his name was up for nomination to the Bishopric of Florida. He withdrew his name, protesting that he was "much too young." Thirteen years later, Oliver James Hart III, now rector of St. John's ("The Church of the Presidents") in Washington, D. C., again declined, this time to become Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee. In the next 16 months he turned down two more bishoprics: the Dioceses of Central New York and Delaware...
...Sixteen students have formed a committee to raise money at Harvard to contribute to the Red Cross drive for funds for the relief of the invaded nations of Europe, it was announced yesterday...
...ruggers reached pay dirt only once, with Tiger Smith taking the scoring honors. But in the second half the Crimson offense began rolling with Phil Strong, George Ditz, and Marsh Holleb each collecting three points. Conversions by Dave Colwell after the first and last tally brought the total to sixteen. Although the Boston Club seriously threatened several times in both periods, they were unable to cross the final stripe...
...Sixteen days after World War I began in 1914, Samuel Harden Church was called the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation (for denouncing Germany's "murder of civilization"). Previously he had worked his way up from messenger boy to vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, had long been doing good with Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie's money. He has crusaded for monetary inflation, against Prohibition, for President Roosevelt...