Word: sixteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facilities, the equipment and the more frequent schedules needed to attract more passengers. Consequently, revenue--and the level of equipment and service--continue to fall. The MTA carries far fewer people today than when it was formed in 1947, and it had a deficit last year of sixteen million dollars; the plight of the New Haven's commuter lines is well-known...
...students hard-pressed by mounting expenses (watch for a possible tuition rise in 1964-65) Dudley offers 103 low-cost residencies. Sixteen men live on the fifth floor of Apley Court (16 Holyoke St.) at $185 per term; 44 men save $450 to $500 a year living in the co-operatives at 3 Sacramento St. and 1705 Mass. Ave.; and 43 men live in four entries of Wigglesworth Hall (H-K) and are relieved from paying the full board charge as are the residents of Apley Court...
...self-preservation as anything else. Yang gave the little bit extra that put him over. Yang remeasured the crossbar. "Parry O'Brien was practicing the shot-put, and he called over, 'What was the height? About fifteen and a half?' When I told him 'Sixteen two,' he said, 'Wow! You were over that bar by six or seven inches...
...Sick and sixteen, the heroine is the daughter of a U.S. officer who puts her up at a fancy French academy while he assiduously golfs to keep himself in SHAPE. Flirty and thirty, the hero is a sculptor who sponges off a rich woman (Françoise Prévost)-and takes her money too. One day the girl jumps the wall that divides her school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares...
...long association with maritime and colonial enterprises, has always occupied a respected place in scholarship. In addition to geography chairs in the major universities, there is the Hakluyt Society, which publishes the narratives of famous explorers and adventurers. Raleigh A. Skelton has been secretary of the Society for sixteen years; and to support his infectious belief in the romance of maps he might quote the Society motto...