Word: sixteener
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...Tiny (two miles by one) but isolated and fertile, it looked like a safe refuge from the long arm of the British Government. Safe in that respect it proved to be but at the end of ten years only one man and ten women were left alive; "of the sixteen dead, fifteen had come to violent ends." Principal causes of dissension were women and liquor. There were not enough women to go around; when one of the colony made a successful still, there was too much liquor. First death was a woman's suicide, in protest...
Including one of the sixteen perfect first editions of the folio of Shakespeare's Plays, the second most valuable English edition of Montaigne's Essays in the world, and rare quarto editions of Shakespeare's Plays, genuine and spurious, the fifteen-volume Shakespeare exhibit now displayed in the Widener Memorial Room is estimated to be worth over...
...Sixteen hours before flames swept the $5,500,000 luxury liner off the New Jersey coast, acting Capt. William F. Warms told government investigators, Capt. Robert R. Wilmott, her master, was so fearful one of his officers would attack him with sulphuric acid that he locked himself in his cabin...
...Sixteen trains wrecked by deliberately damaged tracks...
...that platform to deliver his famed campaign speech in 1860. Now another tall, bearded man, Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, potent industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned...